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really? tw*t? I'd never thought of it as that rude to be honest.

On the whole people have been pretty good at self censorship and I've yet to be genuinely offended by a post (well, not for swearing anyway).


Do you think the administrator should allow people to use those words for when they might be appropriate, or at least couched in such a way as hopefully not to be offensive.


I guess I could use woowoo and choochoo respectively instead.

All well and good.

There is quite a lot of inverted snobbery which goes on on this site. People dissing the 'middle class yummie mummies' etc. Just thought I'd throw that in.

Does having a law degree (or any other professional qualification) not make one middle class by definition? Therefore CWALD is now a middle class chav.

I probably come from 'working class' paternal side and 'middle class' maternal side, where does that leave me? I can't bear all this class distinction.

I have a thing about the 'c' word, by which I mean 'community', as in the X community or the Y community. It means nothing. Reporters etc should simply say 'X people' (eg deaf people, people of Asian/Celtic/etc origin'. I also don't like it when train drivers say 'next station stop'. Nero

Ha ha, now we're talking.


CEO of my company made it into Birtspeak in Private Eye this issue with a sentence which more or less sums up how management consultancy has poisoned the language:


"Last.FM adds a terrific interactive extension to all of our properties and also a huge step in CBS Corporation's overall strategy of expanding our reach online to transition from a content company into an audience company.

We looked at a lot of companies to provide a base for CBS' investment in online reach, and found Last.FM to be poised at an inflection point balancing fast growth, a sticky community (there's that word again nero) and the opportunity for monetization that does not distract the user"


Gaaaaaaaah!

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