Newspeak?

[stivis]

Newspeak?...... Qui!! Technically that's wrong it should be .....quoi (I think I hated Miss Milne's class, it was reciprocal)

Examples are (good), gooder,goodest...unfriend

You get the gist

One that has been grating on me for a while, is man made leather

Hazard a guess?

[John Donnelly]

Here's one Morag will fondly remember :-

Good English teached here, gooder up the stair.

JD.

[morag]

Lol, John, I enjoyed my school days, had teachers I liked mostly. I had long hair then, usually in pigtails or ponytails, the boys had a hard time resisting a tug of it,but knew better! So feeling my hair pulled I turned around to batter the culprit, it was teacher Jim McCutcheon, he backed away,hands up, lol! But, back on topic, I hope, I get a bit of a grimace when the use of some words e.g. misuse of was / were, stuff like that. But I think, that now with internet and all, 'We're doomed,Doomed I say!

[John Donnelly]

Morag, you know who I was talking about !!!!

JD.

[stivis]

And what is man made leather?

[meekan]

Imitation leather? (fabric made to look like leather)?

[stivis]

it's a phrase that has been creeping in over the last two or three year being used in High end cars(mercedes,jaguar,Bmw,Audi,etc etc) for Upholstery.......It being Plastic like a 1972 Marina and Nobody asks what it is!!

Another one is the use of the word Industry,example the Banking industry.........It's not an industry it's a business
If you read through a newspaper business section it's awash with this type of nonsense,

how about "Disavows"???