Watching, sadly, Question time tonight I have again been made acutely aware of my backwardness when it comes down to my understanding of our language.
I heard the government guy, whats his name, say about the benefit of immigrant workers to the country and of there being some, which is cool. He then went on blah de blah as they do, to say the 'disbenefit' Ok where the heck do you need that word eh? why not use words that are in bloody existence already for heavens sake.
Perhaps he was playing Commons bingo????
P&H
I know what you mean - they use words like that and "downsizing" ffs, just to make things sound less bad. I hate that.
But to be honest, disbenefit is no more unreasonable than disadvantage, disrespect. It's just that we don't use it. I just hate why they use it.
It tickles me when people make words up, or use the wrong word, especially people we expect to be intelligent, the thing with polititians is that they don't need any formal qualifications .
Pet hate at the moment is when they I see "should of " when it ought to be "should have".
I dont know what the world is coming to , I really dont!!!
If you are very clever are you tarded as if you are not very bright you could be classed as retarded?
Perhaps he took lessons from Hilary Clinton...remember she "mis-spoke" about the incident in Bosnia.
In other words she lied, but could not use that word.
John
FB steps slowly away from the thread.
i make up words all the time granted they is not posh but i do not have a degree in posh words or posh speaking nor do i have to waffle the voters brains to get them on my side
Dis Dirty Girty
could stil have been a lazy politician`s made up word,that`s just recently been added to the dictionary.
that`s how language changes over time