Ah, we can add 'abuse of the English language' to this government's misdemeanours. Not for the first time.
Apologies to the Guardian
Hmm! Unattributed source . The Grauniad?
I share your frustration. This is perhaps an example of the Humpty Dumpty philosophy of language where "a word means what I want it to mean, no more, no less".Jdsk wrote: ↑24 Jan 2024, 11:21am We've got a "one bad apple" thread. I learnt this as a proverbial description based on one bad apple causing all of the others in the barrel to rot.
It's now sometimes used to mean "there's only one bad one, all of the others are OK". Which is just about the opposite.
The history:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordpla ... hor-phrase
This seems to lose a valuable and admirably concise concept.
Jonathan
Just the thing to add to the water in your bidon on long, cold rides? Or maybe not?Will wrote: ↑21 Jan 2024, 10:03am You can get an eco-friendly additive to add to the water when necessary:
https://www.ecopond.co.uk/product/ice-f ... ird-baths/
Will
I really hope that, come the General Election, there'll be a majority vote to scrap all the rest of the tory ministers, including the PM.
I guess Jonathan's point is that only 19% of tories are prepared to insist that the messages are truly beyond recall, and that 58% think that Sunak is being less than straightforward about this (ie he is effectively lying). This did surprise me somewhat.