tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post2968816911964741715..comments2024-03-28T19:27:59.772+00:00Comments on A K Haart: AwesomeA K Haarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-36851309470182000612017-07-08T20:23:18.203+01:002017-07-08T20:23:18.203+01:00Sam - not only sad but probably wrong if the commu...Sam - not only sad but probably wrong if the communication is directed at people who are not Americans.<br /><br />Wiggia - in the fifties my cousin lost his father, but his mum worked, coped and brought up three boys. <br /><br />Demetrius - yes language does decay and it matters because it defines what we are and constrains our ability to know what we are.<br /><br />Scrobs - today everything not liked is 'right wing' so maybe people still haven't grown up.<br /><br />Roger - 'funeral plans and compo lawyers'? You must have been watching daytime TV. Which suggest I've noticed it too.<br /><br />A K Haarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-1942642423317353422017-07-08T13:04:49.976+01:002017-07-08T13:04:49.976+01:00Awesome post AK.
Terrestrial telly, strictly for...Awesome post AK.<br /><br />Terrestrial telly, strictly for poor people and old people and those who stay in on Saturday night, hardly worth advertising to, apart from funeral plans and compo lawyers.<br /><br />A few years ago interviewees were regarded as ignorant if they used 'yunno'. Now everyone does it yunno. Then a good bit before that people were thought careless and ignorant if they used newfangled writing instead of memory yunno.<br /><br />So far as I can tell people have been going to hell in a handcart since about 5000BCE.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-86413129455584998362017-07-08T12:35:48.606+01:002017-07-08T12:35:48.606+01:00A few years ago, everything not liked was 'hat...A few years ago, everything not liked was 'hateful', so maybe the people who used the term have grown up by now.Scrobs.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12942449871600526680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-61712036330304345502017-07-08T11:39:48.841+01:002017-07-08T11:39:48.841+01:00What it is part of is the decay of language and of...What it is part of is the decay of language and of any structure in thinking.Demetriushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17198549581667363991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-40361416821203582062017-07-08T08:05:47.562+01:002017-07-08T08:05:47.562+01:00I can remember in less "fortunate" times...I can remember in less "fortunate" times, post war, a young child being given for Christmas a few copies of old newspapers and a box of crayons, the mother who had lost her husband in the war was near destitute, yet worked, nobody critised or admonished as today when an iPod is the only acceptable gift.<br />He later became a good friend and a fellow track cyclist.wiggiatlargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01679399861131265080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-7447187799872709572017-07-07T21:46:59.441+01:002017-07-07T21:46:59.441+01:00"Awesome!" and "amazing!" alwa..."Awesome!" and "amazing!" always seem to require being spoken, in that context at least, in an American accent. I think that less damage is done to meaning and expectations if we stick to British understatement. I have seen some excellent teachers who give grudging praise ("Not bad, not bad...!") and if done with a twinkle it can be just as motivating.<br /><br />I remember interviewing someone for a management position in a college, and they introduced their presentation in an ironically self-deprecating and understated manner which I found quite engaging. My boss, however, dismissed it. He said that any effective communication now has to be Americanised and "OTT", or else people lose confidence in the communicator. Sad, really.Sam Vegahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05978971199859845931noreply@blogger.com