General Chat

Yesterday in the Telegraph - one of UK's 'posh' newspapers

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100218929/chillax-people-and-let-the-poor-prime-minister-have-a-holiday/

Clarke: Prime Minister has right to 'chillax' - BBC 2012

Somebody rr'd my post for using the now commonly used word in UK, Chillax

If the newspapers can use it and the BBC, so can I or anybody else

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18138300

Now steady on there "Don't get your knickers in a twist" - that is in the Oxford dictionary as well - but you are wrong.
lol :-D :-D :-D

Many modern words I hate. But I absolutely love chillax - it says what is means and is so much easier than the alternative. Relaxing and chilling out.

Now don't start me on color, flavor, sidewalk, elevator, fries. What is all that about? :-S :-S

NS, No one RR'd you for using the word "chillax"

You were RR'd for the context in which you used the word

Roy

What would happen to this thread if 'words' were prohibited?

Bare Bear
Bark (Tree) Bark (dog)
Beat (drum)Beet (Edible veg)
Beetle Beatle
Birth Berth
Bored Board
Bow (E. London)Bough (Tree)
Boy Buoy (sea)
Brake Break.
By Buy / Bye.

I dare suppose that Virgina Woolf knew more about the English language than the dolts running most of the press and tv

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8czs8v6PuI

Oh Roy :-D :-D :-D in the context - what's that supposed to mean.

You can stick the word up a jumper - it has the same meaning any where you use it - a self explanatory word.

Think I'll start using the word 'butters' as well.

The Daily Blue ?
POSH (port out starboard home)
the house journal of middle ranking civil servants, failed bankers and headmasters?

surely not in St James

Rollo. You can dare say. But not dare suppose. There is no Viking bravery is supposition :-)

NS, My English. spelling and grammar is not great but one thing I do no is that the words that make a sentence up have different meanings when the same words are used in a different order, "CONTEXT"

con·text

noun
1.
the parts of a written or spoken statement that precede or follow a specific word or passage, usually influencing its meaning or effect: You have misinterpreted my remark because you took it out of context

Roy

Sorry - but Chillax still sounds like something an aging hippy would use, picked up by the teenagers to use as 'street language'. It's not something that our offfspring have used when talking to us!
I wonder how many adult/mature in age Telegraph readers use it in day to day conversations?
:-S

Not an issue, DET. Just chill. Now where is that axe?

I feel sure the Duchess of Cornwall chillaxes. She is down with the yoof. She is star, groovy, ace, cool, sick :-) :-)

The Telegraph is my newspaper of choice, however, just because that stupid words has been used in print doesn't mean I shall be using it this side of hell!

Sue

Me neither Sue - silly word imo ;-)

you ain't going to hell Sue - you is far too good!!! innit :-D

Exactly Wend :-D :-D

Edit: aaaargh @ init :-P :-P

Maybe it is a word more commonly used in London. Like the horrible word Sweet

It might well be NanaSue. I'm more familiar with Sweet as in 'good'.

One phrase which has been around (in the SE) for about 15 years is

'I can't be arsed' meaning that I can't be bothered.
Why on earth the word arse instead of asked which would make more sense?

My friend infuriates me by using the word 'knackered'

My mother used to talk with a plum in her mouth but when she was annoyed with us she used to say 'I'll give you a dough boy' instead saying some like I'll give you a dirty slap.

I used it for years until after returning to Uk I actually found out what is meant

The Telegraph is my newspaper of choice, however, just because

>>> that stupid words <<<

Mr Green Pen would no doubt be aware that the plural would be
"those stupid words"
and the singular
"That stupid word"

has been used in print doesn't mean I shall be using it this side of hell!

This is interesting:

http://courses.media.mit.edu/2004spring/mas966/Ogden%20Richards%201923.pdf

The trouble with the press is that it reports news which is at best 24 hours old and far too often as much as a week. The web sites of the various rags are so obviously torn between reporting news and not upstaging the print edition.

Last Sunday's Andrew Marr show was especially telling with Theresa May and Mr Robinson completely at sea trying to deal with a story which had moved on. Both of these old stagers essentially rely on the press and it the joins show.

I very much look forward to the return of Andrew Marr himself in the autumn. He is one of the few men at the top of the BBC who understand modern media and news.

Quite recently the Beeb had an excellent series called "The Hour" about news gathering around the time of "Watch Out Springs About" (Profumo). The series has been axed and despite marvelous performances frozen out of the BAFTA awards.

Not much sign then that most of the BBC understand news gathering in 2013. If they did then the weird idea of moving chunks of their news operation to Manchester would not have happened.

Getting back to the press I wonder how many people are aware that the Murdoch empire has cancelled any further orders for high speed print presses. When their current machines wear out that will be it for the print edition both in the USA and Wapping.

Tam indigenis quam advenis una lex erit omnium qui peccaverint ignorante .

The main problem with using the words commonly used by the yoof of today is by the time it gets into common parlance its outdated.

So the word you love is old hat