Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 17, 2017

They mean “Bland”, “Small”, “Insect-chewed”, and “Expensive”.

Words describing how and where things were made before we got the low wage, imported, batch, mass produced, bland, preservative laden dreck we find in shops today.

Who cares what they mean? I’ll have a dozen of the bright new buzzy ones.

They’re not meant to be understood. That’s the whole point of using them

It means big companies are putting fancy names on small batches so they can charge high prices.

‘Expert’…‘Ex’ is a has been. ‘Spert’ is a drip under pressure.

Words like these make my head hurt….will someone please stop.

Very funny!

That’s the beauty of the English language; you’re allowed to make up words as you go along. It doesn’t matter if anybody understands them or not, as long as you do.

Now that’s a second-generation, state-of-the-art, paradigm shift for you.

Reverse the polarity on the flux capacitor to emit a polarized beam of tachyons to disrupt the temporal anomaly and restore the space-time continuum .

I’m with him. That’s a diet that adds nothing to the weight of one’s knowledge – except, of course, sheer befuddlement – lots of that around

As far as I can tell, “artisanal” means that somebody made it.

I t’ink English words er more ephemeral than we t’ink, eh?

Slang is fun….

just remember, you can’t spell artisanal without anal…

He must be running a subsidiary of Whole Paycheck.

Over on Dilbert, they’re having fun with the new computer buzzword “blockchain”.

A couple of my new favorites are risible and fungible .

The Trump tax cut proposal is risible but considered fungible by the wealthy.

Yeah, it gets a rise out of me, and I think it’s a fungus, too !

So not woke

Politicians have been naming bills for a long time to fool the electorate into thinking it’s one thing but really means that the common man will get screwed.

Can I have an artisanal with extra of hyperlocal? and some attitude on the side

Sort of like where progressive America is taking us. Orwell called it “newspeak” in 1984 where new words were mandated for old meanings. Examples today would be “climate change” for “global warming” so you can get us coming or going whether hot or cold. Another would be the transformation of “illegal alien” which describes someone who has entered the country illegally through “undocumented” to just plain “immigrant” sort of like those who came here on the Mayflower or through Ellis Island.

Why hasn’t the government banned dihydroxide? It’s know to cause billions of dollars in property damage every year, is a major factor in soil erosion, plus, it kills thousands. And yet, you’ll find it in schools, within inches of children every single day!!! SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING!!!

@personal department: The best part of being retired is that I am not forced to listen to your endless chain of buzzwords which generates an endless chain of expletives in my head.

Eschew obfuscation!

All “progressive” catch words.

It used to be that “robust” meant something like healthy and strong. In the neocon parlance it means they’re going to screw people even harder. “Robust” tax cuts, “robust” interrogations. ’Scuse me while I go enhance the radian decay on the clanax refractor.

Like the difference, if any, between “Fake” and “Real”.

This isn’t really funny. If we don’t all learn what sustainable means, our society will become unsustainable.

Art-is-anal???

Art is anal is beginning to come back to me. I will bring this word down , yet.

I need a Block Chain.