tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post3651970462276194475..comments2024-03-27T20:34:09.464+01:00Comments on zmkc: Words and Phrases - an Everyday Story of Pedantic Folkzmkchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-78699898546313212052012-06-03T00:31:10.088+02:002012-06-03T00:31:10.088+02:00"Refreshments" is wonderful - I'd fo..."Refreshments" is wonderful - I'd forgotten it. I don't think I've eaten or drunk anything very good under that banner, though.Pollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18291941714980391853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-56147325970860721292012-06-02T15:36:05.714+02:002012-06-02T15:36:05.714+02:00Gosh. For some reason [OK, sheer ignorance] I gues...Gosh. For some reason [OK, sheer ignorance] I guessed that a triage was some sort of sling or bandage for a broken arm.<br /><br />I had no use for the term 'medications' for most of my life because I rarely was subjected to them. In the past three years the term was/is so universal in our health system that it didn't occur to me there were alternatives. <br /><br />I have a 'shortcuts' program that automatically expands 'meds' to 'medications' in that section of my blog. Given that it is there a thousand times, I commend your patience in reading it. <br /><br />I promise to look for alternatives. This should be fun....Denis Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-83971047778301678302012-06-02T02:37:44.947+02:002012-06-02T02:37:44.947+02:00I'm glad to be of service! And any time you...I'm glad to be of service! And any time you're in town, you're welcome to borrow the text.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-22900097776209733662012-06-01T08:25:04.923+02:002012-06-01T08:25:04.923+02:00I'm so glad there are people in the world who ...I'm so glad there are people in the world who still browse Fowler'szmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-813121182236604312012-06-01T08:24:17.201+02:002012-06-01T08:24:17.201+02:00I'd have thought you could use 'embodiment...I'd have thought you could use 'embodiment' in place of 'instantiation'<br />I think 'triage' only turned up in Australian hospital A&Es in the early 90s - probably came via your great country, George. Before that, hospitals were better staffed so that you simply got seen within a quite short time.<br />'Going under the knife' might be a good antidote to 'procedure'zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-69649613713312448882012-06-01T07:14:13.129+02:002012-06-01T07:14:13.129+02:00Fowler's Modern English Usage provides the cur...Fowler's Modern English Usage provides the cure - or do I mean <i>antidote</i> or perhaps <i>solution</i>? - for all these linguistic ills. Browsing it recently I was interested to discover <i>Saxonism</i>< which was a movement to replace all Latinate words with Germanic ones, which would only give us <i>feel better</i> here.Gadjo Dilohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08998278830936531990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-38412231517363538582012-06-01T02:27:34.112+02:002012-06-01T02:27:34.112+02:00George: David and I got stuck on the "instant...George: David and I got stuck on the "instantiation". He values it. I thought it was just another example of gratuitous syllables. I thought "instance" sufficed, but you have shown me the difference.... and saved our marriage.Pollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18291941714980391853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-10678565177604476332012-06-01T01:07:55.635+02:002012-06-01T01:07:55.635+02:00"Procedure" is I suppose a euphemism. Ev..."Procedure" is I suppose a euphemism. Eventually it will wear thin, as they do, and our successors will ask, "Why do they use that word instead of 'procedure'?"<br /><br />I guess that "medication" has the advantage of an extra syllable, which some always think makes a word sound more important. To my ear it indicates a drug that is taken to control rather than to cure a condition; statins and anti-depressants are medications, antibiotics are medicines. Maybe nobody else thinks of them that way, and I do only because the word and the drugs became current at the same time.<br /><br />Polly: "Instantiation" is a perfectly good word, which I first encountered in a symbolic logic class in college. The text is on our shelves yet; section 19.3 is given to universal, 19.5 to existential instantiation. If the proposition in question were "there exists x, such that x is oviparous and x is duck-billed and x is a mammal", then brandishing a platypus would amount to existential instantiation. The platypus itself, however, would be an instance.<br /><br />Bob: The word triage has been around since WW I, hasn't it? I can't think of a simpler word that will do, unless "sorting". Yet "triage" is familiar, even if the emergency rooms don't now sort into three groups.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-58427917631739616472012-06-01T00:55:19.649+02:002012-06-01T00:55:19.649+02:00This comment has been removed by the author.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-19479091785194042262012-06-01T00:02:14.432+02:002012-06-01T00:02:14.432+02:00Another touchy-feely medical term that sets my tee...Another touchy-feely medical term that sets my teeth on edge is 'triage'. Like 'procedure' it's a cloying, euphemistic recent bit of jargon and needs to be explained to the average person.Analogue Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12922576450897475604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-38036343042601704812012-05-31T23:49:58.257+02:002012-05-31T23:49:58.257+02:00Talking of that, I've always been fond of that...Talking of that, I've always been fond of that mysterious word 'refreshments', which organisations like the Countrywomen's Association and other such offer - tea, cake and refreshments will be available in the church hall et cetera.zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-42504220601318994962012-05-31T23:47:54.050+02:002012-05-31T23:47:54.050+02:00Shudder.Shudder.zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-89468092793118773632012-05-31T14:56:14.256+02:002012-05-31T14:56:14.256+02:00Just another "instantiation" of language...Just another "instantiation" of language creep. Maybe I've used that word "instantiation" incorrectly, but I just heard it yesterday so I haven't practiced it much. (I also like the idea of "creep" as in "academic creep", which has always brought to mind a sleazy professor.)Pollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18291941714980391853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-10839283668849474772012-05-31T14:26:10.866+02:002012-05-31T14:26:10.866+02:00drink= beveridge
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drives me maddrink= beveridge <br /><br />etcetc<br /><br />drives me madwormhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02802335627720182532noreply@blogger.com