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List:       wikien-l
Subject:    Re: [WikiEN-l] "refactoring" signatures
From:       "Daniel R. Tobias" <dan () tobias ! name>
Date:       2006-06-13 0:29:09
Message-ID: 448DCE95.6318.40854A73 () dan ! tobias ! name
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On 12 Jun 2006 at 23:48,  "Death Phoenix" <originaldeathphoenix@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/12/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I tend to call it Commonwealth English, except when something gets me
> > really annoyed, and then I'm liable to call it Proper Bloody English.
> 
> PBE's a good one.

Pompous Bullshit English?

It (British/Commonwealth English) tends, in my (probably biased) 
experience, to be used by people trying to put on airs and sound 
pretentiously superior, like real estate developers naming a 
development "Harbour Centre" when it's nowhere near a harbo(u)r nor 
particularly close to the center/re of anything important, or fashion 
magazines ("Glamour") that desperately want to show how elegant they 
believe themselves to be, or snooty academics who would rather be 
involved with an "encyclopaedia" than a commoner's "encyclopedia".

I find it especially bothersome to encounter the word "paedophile", 
since I hardly think pedophiles deserve to be dignified with a 
pretentiously dressed-up spelling.

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