I Give Up

[Rhyd6]

Visited a cafe this morning and there were a group of students from Wrexham University discussing climate change. It was a robust discussion with both pro and against points being made but I had to laugh when one young lady, who was defending Greta announced to all and sundry that "Greta is only making us all aware how carbon pollution is exasperating climate change". Well, she certainly exasperates but I'm not too sure about the climate

R6

[nmdhqbc]

exasperating

What have you given up? Accepting that occasionally people of all ages have a slip of the tongue? Exacerbating is a pretty similar word so not a massive stretch that it might come out wrong once in a while.

[kiloran]

..... and there were a group of students .....

R6

Ahem.....
Isn't "a group" singular?


--kiloran

[Watis]

..... and there were a group of students .....

R6

Ahem.....
Isn't "a group" singular?


--kiloran

Perhaps it's the local vernacular?

Watis

PS: I though the vernacular was a mountain railway until i discovered Smirnoff!

[AleisterCrowley]

...and since when did Wrexham have a 'University' ??!

[kempiejon]

I thought muffin the mule was sexual offence until I discovered Smirnoff

[Howyoudoin]

exasperating

What have you given up? Accepting that occasionally people of all ages have a slip of the tongue? Exacerbating is a pretty similar word so not a massive stretch that it might come out wrong once in a while.

Now there's someone who has no idea what this board is all about.

That makes me grumpy.

Sorry. I mean bitter.

HYD

[nmdhqbc]

exasperating

What have you given up? Accepting that occasionally people of all ages have a slip of the tongue? Exacerbating is a pretty similar word so not a massive stretch that it might come out wrong once in a while.

Now there's someone who has no idea what this board is all about.

That makes me grumpy.

Sorry. I mean bitter.

HYD

Ahhh, I see. I view all the post together in the "Active Topics" section and don't pay much attention to what the pacific board is. So one can come here and be annoyed at irrational things without judgement then I guess. I like it. I'm sure I have loads of those.

[kiloran]

......and don't pay much attention to what the pacific board is.

That'll exascerbate Rhyd6

--kiloran

[Rhyd6]

No it won't Kiloran, I've got some cream for that

R6

Actually I was more annoyed by their language and inability to form a sentence without the use of the f word. Wrexham has had a University for some time now, it used to be a very good Technical College but if todays demonstration is anything to go by it doesn't rate highly as a University.

[Howyoudoin]

What have you given up? Accepting that occasionally people of all ages have a slip of the tongue? Exacerbating is a pretty similar word so not a massive stretch that it might come out wrong once in a while.

Now there's someone who has no idea what this board is all about.

That makes me grumpy.

Sorry. I mean bitter.

HYD

Ahhh, I see. I view all the post together in the "Active Topics" section and don't pay much attention to what the pacific board is. So one can come here and be annoyed at irrational things without judgement then I guess. I like it. I'm sure I have loads of those.

Indeed. It's a very good way of letting off steam.

HYD

PS I notice you've been picked up on 'pacific' but I took it to be a very clever way of ingratiating yourself to the board. And in particular Snorvey who mentioned the 'specifics' further up the thread. Bravo

[bungeejumper]

exasperating

What have you given up? Accepting that occasionally people of all ages have a slip of the tongue? Exacerbating is a pretty similar word so not a massive stretch that it might come out wrong once in a while.

It's generally known as a malapropism. A comic effect that was used by Shakespeare to take the piss, long before Sheridan gave it a name in the eighteenth century. As in dancing a flamingo, or being given a sweet bucket of flowers. The imputation is that the speaker is trying to talk tall while their vocabulary remains comically short.

But you knew that, obviously?

BJ

[XFool]

..... and there were a group of students .....

R6

Ahem.....
Isn't "a group" singular?


--kiloran

I give up!

[stewamax]

Nil desperandum carburundum illegitami, Rhyd6.
I blame the schooling: these slipshod malapropisms stem from inadequate flogging.

Exacerbate is one of those words that is just crying out for an 's' - as exascerbate - but doesn't get one.
If Johnny Frenchman had kept Latinate words out of our otherwise Germanic/Nordic language (with, for you, the honourable exceptions of the ieithoedd Brythonaidd), we wouldn't have all this nonsense. Cornish would be the everyday language on the beach at Newquay, and we would have agreed with M. Barnier to swap Gibraltar for Brittany.

[Rhyd6]

Ooooooh I do like the idea of swapping Brittany for Gib, maybe we can get the Assembly to raise the question with Boris. If they managed that it'd be the first useful thing they'd managed to achieve.

R6

[stewamax]

Sorry Gibraltarians, but I found Gib closely resembled a second-rate army garrison town stuck in a 1950s time-warp.
That's after driving down from Cádiz which is just lovely and has sea-breeze to moderate the Andalusian summer.
And Brittany is civilised too: I once attended a wedding in Guérande where the meal started at lunch-time and was still in progress at midnight, with great platters of lobster, langoustine and other desirables still arriving, washed down by local Muscadet.

[stewamax]

... we would have agreed with M. Barnier to swap Gibraltar for Brittany.

This would, of course, also solve the problem of Brittany's UK-waters fishing quota that will otherwise be decimated by the UK's secession from the EU.
A win-win!

[tea42]

Sorry Gibraltarians, but I found Gib closely resembled a second-rate army garrison town stuck in a 1950s time-warp.
That's after driving down from Cádiz which is just lovely and has sea-breeze to moderate the Andalusian summer.
And Brittany is civilised too: I once attended a wedding in Guérande where the meal started at lunch-time and was still in progress at midnight, with great platters of lobster, langoustine and other desirables still arriving, washed down by local Muscadet.

Guérande....Magic place, love it!

[Rhyd6]

I love Brittany and I didn't even have to learn French to communicate, all in all a very agreeable exchange.

R6

[TUK020]

In Brittany for a week last summer. Lovely time.

Particularly impressed by the village band playing in the square on market morning. Band included a couple of bagpipes (Breton version is much smaller bag than Scottish). Locals were doing a peculiar version of a shuffle/line dance holding hands
All very laid back and Celtic.

Ehh, ma doey (Breton version of "Oh, mon dieu")

Magic