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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Adiraiju almost 7 years ago
They mean “Bland”, “Small”, “Insect-chewed”, and “Expensive”.
jvo almost 7 years ago
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.
Superfrog almost 7 years ago
Who cares what they mean? I’ll have a dozen of the bright new buzzy ones.
somebodyshort almost 7 years ago
They’re not meant to be understood. That’s the whole point of using them
Say What Now‽ Premium Member almost 7 years ago
It means big companies are putting fancy names on small batches so they can charge high prices.
rgwalther almost 7 years ago
‘Expert’…‘Ex’ is a has been. ‘Spert’ is a drip under pressure.
Egrayjames almost 7 years ago
Words like these make my head hurt….will someone please stop.
Phred Premium Member almost 7 years ago
Very funny!
gmartin997 almost 7 years ago
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.
DanFlak almost 7 years ago
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 .
sandpiper almost 7 years ago
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
Ignatz Premium Member almost 7 years ago
As far as I can tell, “artisanal” means that somebody made it.
Varnes almost 7 years ago
I t’ink English words er more ephemeral than we t’ink, eh?
Varnes almost 7 years ago
Slang is fun….
wdgnas almost 7 years ago
just remember, you can’t spell artisanal without anal…
sarah413 Premium Member almost 7 years ago
He must be running a subsidiary of Whole Paycheck.
Richard S Russell Premium Member almost 7 years ago
Over on Dilbert, they’re having fun with the new computer buzzword “blockchain”.
Linguist almost 7 years ago
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 !
paul GROSS Premium Member almost 7 years ago
So not woke
wirepunchr almost 7 years ago
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.
redback almost 7 years ago
Can I have an artisanal with extra of hyperlocal? and some attitude on the side
watashi73 almost 7 years ago
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.
Fido (aka Felix Rex) almost 7 years ago
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!!!
For a Just and Peaceful World almost 7 years ago
@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.
katzenbooks45 almost 7 years ago
Eschew obfuscation!
Robert Hammond Premium Member almost 7 years ago
All “progressive” catch words.
Honorable Mention In The Banjo Toss Premium Member almost 7 years ago
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.
William Bednar Premium Member almost 7 years ago
Like the difference, if any, between “Fake” and “Real”.
Yontrop almost 7 years ago
This isn’t really funny. If we don’t all learn what sustainable means, our society will become unsustainable.
Biltil Premium Member almost 7 years ago
Art-is-anal???
g.iangoodson almost 7 years ago
Art is anal is beginning to come back to me. I will bring this word down , yet.
Radish the wordsmith almost 7 years ago
I need a Block Chain.