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15 Nov 16 - 10:15 AM (#3820725) Subject: BS: A pet hate: 'Amusingly' renamed words From: Ed. What I mean by this is the growing trend on web forums to change words to reinforce a point. For example, in the computer world we have long had 'Microshaft' or 'Micro$oft' up against 'Crapple'. After the recent UK referrendum, depending on which side you support, opponents are either 'Remoaners' or 'Brexshitters'. There are many more. The most recent I've seen was from Backwoodsman of this parish in a current thread, who articulated his distaste of Ukuleles by calling the instrument a 'Pukelele'. How very droll... I'm sorry, but it's not original, it's not witty and it really gets my goat! Rant over. Ed |
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15 Nov 16 - 10:40 AM (#3820737) Subject: RE: BS: A pet hate: 'Amusingly' renamed words From: leeneia I agree, Ed. I thought Pukelele was puerile. I also dislike a similar phenomenon - misspelling lyrics (such as Wuz for Was) to make a third person seem ignorant. (By the way, have you noticed that the hostility against instruments around here is mostly aimed at affordable instruments with non-white roots? Rich people's instruments never sound bad, apparently.) |
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15 Nov 16 - 10:49 AM (#3820742) Subject: RE: BS: A pet hate: 'Amusingly' renamed words From: Steve Shaw Shaftenfreude: feeling smug about the brexit result even though you know it means we're all f****d. |
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15 Nov 16 - 10:54 AM (#3820744) Subject: RE: BS: A pet hate: 'Amusingly' renamed words From: gnu Don't you mean 'pet peeve'? >;-) |
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15 Nov 16 - 11:43 AM (#3820761) Subject: RE: BS: A pet hate: 'Amusingly' renamed words From: meself Well - at its best, this sort of thing can be original, witty, and not get MY goat; e.g. [insert inarguably original, witty, and goat-repelling 'renamed word' here]. At its worst, this sort of thing smacks of the schoolyard. I hope it hasn't gotten as bad in Britain, but in North America, the words that 'contributors to the internet' have 'renamed' as insults to those of the opposing political stripe are positively infantile, the kind of thing you and I outgrew by the time we were eight-years-old. Do I need to point out that this phenomenon started on one end of the political spectrum - guess which end? It carried on there for some time, but eventually some of the weaker-minded on the other end started to respond in kind. Of course, when you consider the childish rhetoric that was coming from one presidential candidate - who, if you can believe it, went on to win the election - what can you expect? |
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15 Nov 16 - 12:46 PM (#3820781) Subject: RE: BS: A pet hate: 'Amusingly' renamed words From: Backwoodsman Ed, Leenia....get a life. |
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15 Nov 16 - 01:03 PM (#3820786) Subject: RE: BS: A pet hate: 'Amusingly' renamed words From: Dave the Gnome Not specific words but when did 'peace loving' and 'do-gooder' become insults? Just wondering DtG |
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15 Nov 16 - 01:11 PM (#3820788) Subject: RE: BS: A pet hate: 'Amusingly' renamed words From: Steve Shaw Dunno, Dave, because I'm a member of The Silent Majority! |
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15 Nov 16 - 01:29 PM (#3820791) Subject: RE: BS: A pet hate: 'Amusingly' renamed words From: Mrrzy Then there are the 1984esque ones - Peacekeeper for soldier, etc. And the ones that aren't necessary because there is already another word: Worthiness (worthy is the adjective of WORTH, a perfectly good noun!) Ah, how refreshing to be ranting about something *else.* |
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15 Nov 16 - 02:21 PM (#3820795) Subject: RE: BS: A pet hate: 'Amusingly' renamed words From: frogprince One current one that really does make me disgusted: "libtard"; it usually appears after inflammatory "clever" facebook posts, in comments riduled with misspelings an grahmatical errors. |
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15 Nov 16 - 03:03 PM (#3820799) Subject: RE: BS: A pet hate: 'Amusingly' renamed words From: Ed. Backwoodsman says Ed, Leenia....get a life. Brilliant! Anyone who disagrees with him, clearly doesn't have one. A really odd conclusion... |
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15 Nov 16 - 05:25 PM (#3820820) Subject: RE: BS: A pet hate: 'Amusingly' renamed words From: McGrath of Harlow One I quite like is "Kipper" for Ukip supporter. My impression is that on the whole they don't mind it either. But that's normal enough with political insult terms. "Tory" started out as an insult. Well, of course it still is. But they use it themselves. |
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15 Nov 16 - 11:12 PM (#3820862) Subject: RE: BS: A pet hate: 'Amusingly' renamed words From: Mrrzy Whigs and Tories dim their glories Bending an ear to all his stories... |
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15 Nov 16 - 11:44 PM (#3820864) Subject: RE: BS: A pet hate: 'Amusingly' renamed words From: Backwoodsman Ed, as you're clearly not as clever as you like to think you are, I'll explain in simple words. 'Get a life' is another way of saying 'I don't care what you think'. So...get a life. |
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16 Nov 16 - 03:25 AM (#3820879) Subject: RE: BS: A pet hate: 'Amusingly' renamed words From: Mr Red "get a life" only means "I don't care" in the mind of the teller. <SMART=ASS> Sorry to be uber-pedantic (and contrarywise to the origi-poster) but "get a life" is telling someone to do something. With implications (and I infer that) of inferiority of their opines sic. </SMART> Isn't lexicography, semantics, etymology and communicativeness wonderous? (;-) |
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16 Nov 16 - 07:04 AM (#3820921) Subject: RE: BS: A pet hate: 'Amusingly' renamed words From: Backwoodsman I don't care what you think either. |
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16 Nov 16 - 07:25 AM (#3820925) Subject: RE: BS: A pet hate: 'Amusingly' renamed words From: Steve Shaw I could care less either. Oh, shit, I forgot...I'm English... |
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16 Nov 16 - 07:30 AM (#3820929) Subject: RE: BS: A pet hate: 'Amusingly' renamed words From: Jim Carroll "Folk song" never fails to get me - walks away with a grin!! Jim Carroll |
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16 Nov 16 - 07:39 AM (#3820931) Subject: RE: BS: A pet hate: 'Amusingly' renamed words From: Dave the Gnome Talking of which, on a slightly more serious note. where does 'Fakesong' fit in this scheme of thing? DtG |
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16 Nov 16 - 07:39 AM (#3820932) Subject: RE: BS: A pet hate: 'Amusingly' renamed words From: Steve Shaw Or "folksy" to describe any pop song that has a violin in it. |
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16 Nov 16 - 10:39 AM (#3820971) Subject: RE: BS: A pet hate: 'Amusingly' renamed words From: Jim Carroll where does 'Fakesong' fit in this scheme of thing?" That's Dave Harker's take on, American folklorist Richard Dorson's invention 'Fakelore.' Dorson's word had more validity than Harker's and was less offensive. Jim Carroll |