wiggydiggy
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"New and Improved"
No. Is it New OR Improved, it cannot be both.
No. Is it New OR Improved, it cannot be both.
What English expression do you hate the most?
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Dogtrousers
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Hang on a minute, at the end of the day if you got rid of all those phrases, that would be throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
Sling your hook, @Milzy!
roubaixtuesday
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Excellent suggestions to throw into the strategy wok and see what emerges
Dogtrousers
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Another thing that I don't like (I'm not going so far as to say I hate it) is the twee phrasing you often found in office communications circa 1989. I don't know if it still happens.
Methinks tis time to retire to a local hostelry for a libation. That kind of thing.
Methinks tis time to retire to a local hostelry for a libation. That kind of thing.
matticus
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Dogtrousers
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I think it reached its zenith then, but there may still be people cutely referring to pubs as "hostelries" and drinks as "libations". Methinks.
Brandane
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We used to refer to all of these phrases and the more modern ones, under the collective term of "w*nkspeak", which seemed very appropriate. I expect that word is frowned upon these days.
Gwylan
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Dogtrousers
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Maybe we're living in an alternative Orwell universe. Big W*nker is watching you.
raleighnut
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Nah Boris went a long time ago
Brandane
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Drago
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The correct term is Y fronts.
Alex321
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OK. Well apart from the fact those are still "drawers", not "draws", do you "go commando" except in Winter then?
("Go commando" is one of those phrases I'm not keen on either)
Jameshow
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Yes it can. A new recipe can be an improvement on the old!
Alex321
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Hopefully, it will always be both, though too often is isn't.
I can see why you are saying that, but "new" does not mean a completekly new product in these cases, it means a new version of the product (e.g. A new recipe for that can of vegetable soup).
