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mockney piers

mockney piers

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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.

Asset

Asset

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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.

Nero

Nero

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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
mockney piers

mockney piers

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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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