— Musings —01.06.2015 04:16 PM
Read this and heed this, or you will be sent to your room without dinner
Dear Irritating People: I find this "the new normal" neologism extremely irritating. Stop using it. Sincerely, etc.
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 6, 2015
Leaving irritating comments on Warren’s blog is the new normal.
My first memory of it is from Tony Clement when he was at Queens Park.
I have been using it quarterly the last few years.
Am I an old hipster? Time to take me out to pasture?
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/the-new-normal-is-actually-pretty-old/?_r=0
Actually a term quite popular just before and during the stock market crash and accompanying depression of 1930’s.
So posting you tweets as text is the new normal. Very nice.
Stephen Taylor told me to do it. I always listen to him.
I’d say, “It is what it is”, but I don’t want to be sent to my room before having another glass of wine.
Double spacing after periods is “the old normal” back when we used typewriters and monospaced fonts. In the variable width font dominated world of word processing and page layout, those spaces are redundant. In the restricted Twitterverse world of 140 characters, those extra spaces are downright valuable.
how about “at the end of the day” … blah blah blah
I mean, I am not sure what this controversy is about.
I miss “perfect storm”. 🙁
And the Polar Vortex.
Here in Halifax the big joke one year was NS Power and their “salty fog”
Alternatively, one could say: “Que sera, sera”!
Hey Curtis, in the days of the old normal, should the exclamation point in my previous comment be inside or outside the quotation marks? I forget the dictates of my old CP Stylebook.
Warren, can you please add the wretched, ubiquitous phrase “going forward” to your list? What is %?*%?$& wrong with the pre-pr/corporate speak “henceforth” or “in the future?” When someone uses “all the best going forward” I can only mutter: “as opposed to ‘going backward?'” But hey, it is what it is, right?
I think it’s time to bring closure to this discussion, move forward and get on with our lives.
yes, let us be “proactive”
I agree, but I hasten to add that we should first take the time to assure Warren that we feel his pain.
I’m going to go ahead and agree with you.
Let’s agree to disagree.
I proudly have my laptop set to spell words using “UK English,” which seems kind of neolexic in it’s own right. It’s amazing to me that English is no longer just English. It’s”become American English” (which is really a polite way of identifying 300 million people too stupid to spell or pronounce words correctly.)
Then there’s UK English, which, ‘m sure was invented by well… The fucking English. Apparently though, they spell everything wrong. Words like odour, cheque, civilisation. (I cringe as I look at my office laptop and see the little squiggly, underlining, spelling error thingy appears below each of those three words.
Can someone—ANYONE—please tell me when and by whom the term American English or American spelling was coined. It seems to me that Merriam Webster might have just been a really bad speller.
At the very least, I would ask, only from myself; a high school dropout, construction professional—-Can we all just speak the language the way it’s meant to be spoken? We are a Commonwealth nation. So sad that we’re all becoming so stupid and so dulled by American media infiltration that we are now starting to sound like our stunted friends to the south.