[WikiEN-l] "refactoring" signatures

Tue Jun 13 16:06:44 UTC 2006

On 13/06/06, Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name> wrote:

> 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.

I believe a small number of people not blessed with US citizenship
have been known to use it, but I guess the inflated pomposity is just
the foreign inferiority complex kicking in.

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk