Language shapes and directs thought. This is a thread about linguistic shifts in our time. There are many, some wonderfully inventive, others sinister or pc.

Today I learned that being pissed and carrying on is actually an "alcohol disorder" and a mental health condition.




Waverley Local Court in Sydney’s east heard on Thursday that Mr X would look to deal with the domestic violence-related charges on mental health grounds.  The court previously heard Mr X had an alcohol disorder, which was a factor in some of his alleged offending.
Mr X's lawyer said he would look to deal with the matters under mental health provisions, which could see the charges dismissed on the basis Mr Slater gets ongoing treatment.

Yadda wrote on Dec 24^th, 2021 at 11:28am:


I guess it's no surprise that yadda managed to bring his obsession over Muslims even into this thread

Frank wrote on Dec 24^th, 2021 at 8:04am:


Are you really that naive?
lawyers will put spin on anything to defend their client. If you are relying on defense lawyers to learn language you really should get out more

Princeton University's black academics' demands

Anti-Black racism has a visible bearing upon Princeton’s campus makeup and its hiring practices. It is the problem that faculty of color are routinely called upon to remedy by making ourselves visible; by persuading our white colleagues to overcome bias in hiring, admission, and recruitment efforts; and by serving as mentors and support networks for junior faculty and students seeking to thrive in an environment where they are not prioritized. Indifference to the effects of racism on this campus has allowed legitimate demands for institutional support and redress in the face of micro-aggression and outright racist incidents to go long unmet.

At this moment of massive global uprising in the name of racial justice, we the faculty—Black, Latinx, Asian, and members of all communities of color along with our white colleagues—call upon the University to take immediate concrete and material steps to openly and publicly acknowledge the way that anti-Black racism, and racism of any stripe, continue to thrive on its campus. We call upon the administration to block the mechanisms that have allowed systemic racism to work, visibly and invisibly, in Princeton’s operations. We call upon the University to amplify its commitment to Black people and all people of color on this campus as central to its mission, and to become, for the first time in its history, an anti-racist institution.

We urge you to acknowledge and give priority to the following demands:

2.  Form an internal committee of faculty and students of color to whom the University, in carrying out this work, remains accountable.

15.  Remove questions about misdemeanors and felony convictions from admissions applications, and all applications to work and/or study at Princeton. In recognition that mass incarceration and predatory policing not only menace the safety of all people of color at the University and their families but also hinder our community's progress towards racial justice, heed the Princeton Faculty Call to Action to Divest from Private Prison and Detention Corporations.

16. Don't ever mention black crime, family breakdown, welfare dependency.


https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfPmfeDKBi25_7rUTKkhZ3cyMICQicp05ReVaeB...

Frank wrote on Apr 14^th, 2022 at 10:35am:

Babusya bombs?

MeisterEckhart wrote on Apr 14^th, 2022 at 11:00am:


That sound menacing....

he Australian Broadcasting Commission’s wokerati want me to use Aboriginal words in my everyday discourse. They’d like me to say at dinner parties that I grew up in Boorloo (formerly called “Perth”), moved to the press gallery in Ngunnawal Country (“Canberra”) and finally settled down in Naarm (formerly “Melbourne”) out near ‘Mirring-gnay-bir-nong’, (“Maribyrnong”) which translates as ‘I can hear a ringtail possum’.

As the ABC puts it in their 2019-22 Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), it wants Aboriginal languages and cultures normalised to become a part of my daily life, creating openings “to start conversations and to embrace and form personal connections with Australia’s ancient cultures.” (p6).

The ABC’s inescapable avalanche of Aboriginal words and acknowledgements and tributes is, it says, just

the first stage of a longer journey … The overarching project of fostering a richer and more inclusive national conversation that the ABC is committing to will take many years and will continue beyond the end of this Elevate RAP and into the next. It is one small contribution to the broader journey to reconciliation. (p6).

A key goal is indoctrinating small kids to kow-tow to the Aboriginal Industry. For example, ABC Kids launched 27 episodes of Little Yarns where tots learn a word of two while absorbing the ABC’s version of Aboriginality – “family, nature, culture and belonging.”[1] Play School took up the pledge with “Specials…including the landmark episode, Acknowledgement of Country, celebrating Aboriginal culture and language.”[2]

ABC classroom materials combine the usual Disneyfied version of Aboriginal culture with wallows in victimhood and massacres.
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The language push, incidentally, seems to involve yet another revenue stream for the Aboriginal Industry. The ABC’s dousing of words onto their airwaves is always preceded by “rights and release forms enabling Indigenous communities to retain the copyright and ownership of their cultural knowledge and languages.”
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/12/the-aborigines-lost-in-transl...

"Should of"/"could of".  Plain wrong, but they arise because we tend to
pronounce the phrases as should’ve and could’ve, so the phonetic effect
has overtaken the correct form.  Shoulda, coulda…

“I got it for free” is a pet hate.  You got it “free” not “for free.”  You don’t
get something cheap and say you got it “for cheap” do you?

“I could care less” instead of “I couldn’t care less” has to be the worst.
Opposite meaning of what they’re trying to say.  Duh.

“Reach out to” when the correct word is “ask.” For example: “I will reach
out to Bruce and let you know if that timing is convenient.”   Reach out?
Is Bruce stuck in quicksand? Is he teetering on the edge of a cliff?  Can’t
we just ask him?

When you pronounce the "h" in ‘house’, ‘herd’ and 'horse' but not ’herbs'.
Explain yourselves, America!

What kind of word is “gotten”?   It makes me shudder.  It's ugly.

Another annoying Americanism is “a million and a half” when it is clearly
one and a half million!  A million and a half is 1,000,000.5, where one and
a half million is 1,500,000.

"In back of".  Another Americanism which means "behind".  Like their English.

"Outside of the hotel".  Nope.  Just "outside the hotel".

"When on a plane run by an American airline and they say ‘the plane will
be taking off momentarily.’  As an Aussie that means for a brief period of
time,  IE: only for a moment.

Why do Americans say "Excuse me" if they mishear something?  Did they
fart maybe?  What happened to "Pardon me" I didn't hear you?

Which brings us on to "like" as in: She was like, ‘I’m so over you’ and he
was like, ‘I don't care’.  Horrible.  Truly.

              

Frank wrote on Dec 12^th, 2022 at 8:24pm:


Yes mate... my life is just one exciting, fun-filled day after another.