Comments on: Two formerly perfectly good words of which I’ve become heartily sick… https://thenewneo.com/2019/02/14/two-formerly-perfectly-good-words-of-which-ive-become-heartily-sick/ A blog about political change, among other things Sat, 16 Feb 2019 06:25:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2019/02/14/two-formerly-perfectly-good-words-of-which-ive-become-heartily-sick/#comment-2423529 Sat, 16 Feb 2019 06:25:46 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=84783#comment-2423529 Roy Nathanson on February 15, 2019 at 12:54 am at 12:54 am said:
In Venezuela they learned that, for the Socialists, dialogue is only called for when the Opposition has momentum. After the dialogue, they can go back doing whatever they want to and ignore any promises or commitment made. It is nothing more than a stalling tactic without an ounce of good faith.
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Like Palestinian calls for a cease-fire so they can negotiate with the Israelis, when their only goal is to take a break from being pounded and re-arm.

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2019/02/14/two-formerly-perfectly-good-words-of-which-ive-become-heartily-sick/#comment-2423528 Sat, 16 Feb 2019 06:18:53 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=84783#comment-2423528 Julie near Chicago on February 14, 2019 at 11:37 pm at 11:37 pm said:

Your #6: Ya gotta dance with the guy what brung ya.

I don’t think we will win the verb-shifting battle. Irregular tenses are just too hard for people who have never actually seen them used in print.
Perish the thought that a college education included reading.

Stealing from a comment at Hoyt’s blog, about jobs: You could make it today with an 8th grade education, but you won’t get one even after 4 years in college.

]]> By: Gringo https://thenewneo.com/2019/02/14/two-formerly-perfectly-good-words-of-which-ive-become-heartily-sick/#comment-2423488 Sat, 16 Feb 2019 01:07:07 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=84783#comment-2423488 charles
Lucky me! that in-law does not talk to me any more. Yea!
Was that a consequence of you having pointed out that his “conversation” was better described as a monologue?

]]> By: charles https://thenewneo.com/2019/02/14/two-formerly-perfectly-good-words-of-which-ive-become-heartily-sick/#comment-2423469 Fri, 15 Feb 2019 23:01:57 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=84783#comment-2423469 Had an in-law a few years back use “conversation” exactly as you describe it Neo: “I will harangue you for your failings as a member of a privileged or doubleplusungood group and you will sit there and listen respectfully without defending yourself”.

After he said “I’m glad we had this conversation”, I said something about it being more of a monologue than a conversation.

Lucky me! that in-law does not talk to me any more. Yea!

]]> By: Tom Grey https://thenewneo.com/2019/02/14/two-formerly-perfectly-good-words-of-which-ive-become-heartily-sick/#comment-2423418 Fri, 15 Feb 2019 14:45:56 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=84783#comment-2423418 Dialogue & Conversation are good words — but the PC-Klan don’t really want these.

Normal folk should be calling them out, as liars, when they refuse to hear others or attempt to silence those who disagree with their prior conclusions.

They don’t want what they say they want.
They want power to control you.

]]> By: Phillipa Crawford https://thenewneo.com/2019/02/14/two-formerly-perfectly-good-words-of-which-ive-become-heartily-sick/#comment-2423412 Fri, 15 Feb 2019 13:37:08 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=84783#comment-2423412 Julie near Chicago on February 14, 2019 at 11:37 pm at 11:37 pm said:

“And if you don’t get the dough, that’ll learn larn ya!”

Fixed it for ya. *g*

Excellent.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2019/02/14/two-formerly-perfectly-good-words-of-which-ive-become-heartily-sick/#comment-2423411 Fri, 15 Feb 2019 13:34:14 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=84783#comment-2423411 huxley, you been visiting The Hollow Men again? :>))

Julie near Chicago: No, I was just missing William Safire and his column “On Language,” which made one think about language and its changes.

If there is anyone now “pouring” over current usage, encouraging people to “tow” the line on conventional grammar or at least “reign” in blunders and excesses, I haven’t noticed.

]]> By: Sergey https://thenewneo.com/2019/02/14/two-formerly-perfectly-good-words-of-which-ive-become-heartily-sick/#comment-2423402 Fri, 15 Feb 2019 10:26:28 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=84783#comment-2423402 Ladies and gentlemen do not enter into any conversations with scoundrels.

]]> By: FOAF https://thenewneo.com/2019/02/14/two-formerly-perfectly-good-words-of-which-ive-become-heartily-sick/#comment-2423396 Fri, 15 Feb 2019 08:27:38 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=84783#comment-2423396 How about “sustainable”? Yecchh.

]]> By: Roy Nathanson https://thenewneo.com/2019/02/14/two-formerly-perfectly-good-words-of-which-ive-become-heartily-sick/#comment-2423389 Fri, 15 Feb 2019 05:54:48 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=84783#comment-2423389 In Venezuela they learned that, for the Socialists, dialogue is only called for when the Opposition has momentum. After the dialogue, they can go back doing whatever they want to and ignore any promises or commitment made. It is nothing more than a stalling tactic without an ounce of good faith.

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