Vocabulary question.

[MontyVeda]

upcycle

 

[Drago]

"Reached out" grinds my gears. You didn't reach out - you wrote to/emailed/spoke with them (delete as applicable). You reach out when someone is hanging off a cliff by their fingernails, not when you just need to communicate.

 

[Illaveago]

upcycle

They did that to an apprentice in a garage many years ago . They hauled his bike up to the roof and tied it there .

 

[glasgowcyclist]

One that often riles me is 'impact' used as a verb. It was a noun, full stop, when I were a nipper. Not that I rule it out altogether - I've been known to use it myself - but nine times out of ten 'affect' would be preferable.

Do you think those responsible for verbing nouns should be jailed?

 

[Moon bunny]

Announcers etc. on the BBC who find it impossible to say begin, commence etc., but have to use the ugly expressions kick-in, kick-start, kick-off etc. as if they are a gang of boot boys and girls. I even heard, "...motorists found it impossible to kick-start their cars..," after a flood.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

for verbing nouns

ROFL

 

[Profpointy]

ROFL

I'd missed it first time round

 

[Moon bunny]

So. The Spear-Danes in days gone by
And the kings who ruled them had courage and greatness

So, it is interesting to read why Seamus Heaney started his translation thus:

Conventional renderings of hwæt, the first word of the poem, tend towards the archaic literary, with ‘lo’, ‘hark’, ‘behold’, ‘attend’ and – more colloquially – ‘listen’ being some of the solutions offered previously. But in Hiberno-English Scullion-speak, the particle ‘so’ came naturally to the rescue, because in that idiom ‘so’ operates as an expression that obliterates all previous discourse and narrative, and at the same time functions as an exclamation calling for immediate attention. So, ‘so’ it was:

https://wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/beowulf/introbeowulf.htm

 

[DaveReading]

He didn't weep. He rolled his eyes with dismay at the slack use of the Judean language since the Roman's had arrived.

And was it the Jew's or the Roman's who were responsible for sprinkling extraneous apostrophe's around ?

 

[Profpointy]

So, it is interesting to read why Seamus Heaney started his translation thus:

https://wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/beowulf/introbeowulf.htm

"Hwaet" does have an attention grabbing feel to it. But as I think I've quoted before a Lancastrian would surely have translated it thusly

"now then. The Spear-Danes in days gone by"

but it doesn't quite have the same ring to it

And a very pukka-speaking Indian mate always used to begin with "what it is right, ..." which really would sound silly here

 

[rich p]

as they can't be bothered to use the proper word

I get really pissed off when people cannot resist using abbreviations like 'can't'...

...n'est-ce pas

 

[nickyboy]

upcycle

I think that word is fab. How else would you describe taking something previously used and at the end of its life and modifying it to give it a new use? I can't think of a word that described this until "upcycle" came along

You just need to look at some Middle English to see how many words we take for granted today are modern creations. I hope that in the future people will look at our current vocabulary and chortle at its outdated quaintness

 

[vickster]

Dispatch or despatch....

Discrete or discreet

 

[vickster]

Or should that be 'effect' ?

No...unless using as a noun

 

[swee'pea99]

Or should that be 'effect' ?

No.

'Effect' is almost always a noun, other than in the rather archaic sounding 'to effect a change'. I mean affect. As in 'how were you impacted by this questionable query?'