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Language like buffet restaurant pudding
--All neutral colors, no flavor, one smooth texture.
posted by
Ciel
on March 9, 2014 at 9:55 AM
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I have noticed some of our words being banished. Stupid... I will use that before it is obliterated from polite conversation.... Polite what is that?
posted by
Justi
on February 18, 2014 at 12:22 AM
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And I agree, but just watch as the pc world makes it happen, and of course the bankers and the lenders will never know what this means?
posted by
UtahJay
on February 17, 2014 at 9:47 PM
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I concur with everyone! As usual, the 'politically correct Nazi police' believe that changing the word or description somehow changes the condition. I knew we were in trouble years ago when the simple, honest, direct wording for the condition 'shell shock' was changed to 'post traumatic stress disorder.' Did we really need eight syllables to describe the same thing that used to take two . . . ? 
posted by
JimmyA
on February 17, 2014 at 7:49 AM
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Nautikos
Too funny for words, it's much nicer in Québec. Faillite, LOL
posted by
WileyJohn
on February 16, 2014 at 5:37 PM
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The ideas that some people come up with...
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on February 16, 2014 at 5:02 PM
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Or they could just use ellipses and let everyone do their own thing for one's financial status.
posted by
TAPS.
on February 16, 2014 at 3:52 PM
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They could create new, meaningful apocopations. But, as people became familiar with them they would have to keep creating new ones in order to hide the truth.
posted by
TAPS.
on February 16, 2014 at 3:49 PM
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LOL. What does it matter what you call it if everyone knows it is the same thing?
posted by
TAPS.
on February 16, 2014 at 3:47 PM
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is this political correctness gone too far or is it just stupidity....or all those Greeks who went bust trying to be clever and crawl out of the hole that they dug for themselves.
posted by
Kabu
on February 16, 2014 at 3:17 PM
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Shifty devils are shifty devils no matter how you spell it. I'm a bit tired of all those clever euphemisms. If someone went bankrupt, it's a business mishap - it ain't like he shot his mother and asked the judge for clemency on the grounds he's an orphan.
posted by
Pat_B
on February 16, 2014 at 2:55 PM
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Well I think I would want to know a the credit status a bit more clearly.
posted by
C_C_T
on February 16, 2014 at 10:42 AM
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