Replacing 'about' with 'for' as in 'I am excited for the party' It really grates. I know you can be excited for a person but can you be excited for an event?
Yes, there has always been positive discrimination, and there still is. You see it every day. Discrimination in favour of the male part of the population.
I suggest a new term, negative discrimination. That is, no discrimination.
Apophthegm - a big word for a small thought. If you live in Derbyshire, as I do.
All discrimination is positive and negative at the same time. In positively discriminating in favour of one thing, you are negatively discriminating against the other.
I am so glad that someone said “like” it drives me crazy when I hear a conversation which is peppered with it…..”it’s like I know what you mean like when we went to xxxxx like you know like….” Argh… learn to talk properly.
Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
There is a seemingly endless supply of words/phrases with have entered common parlance recently. Snowflake, Gammon, hacks, cancel culture, moving forward, reaching out, I've/ we've/ you've "got this" . Don't even start me on " My bad " It seems an endless rolling bandwagon onto which I refuse to jump.
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Yes, there has always been positive discrimination, and there still is. You see it every day. Discrimination in favour of the male part of the population.
I suggest a new term, negative discrimination. That is, no discrimination.
If you live in Derbyshire, as I do.
In positively discriminating in favour of one thing, you are negatively discriminating against the other.
Snowflake, Gammon, hacks, cancel culture, moving forward, reaching out, I've/ we've/ you've "got this" .
Don't even start me on " My bad "
It seems an endless rolling bandwagon onto which I refuse to jump.
Another little niggle is when people "plant" seeds. Seeds are sown, plants are planted.