Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[gurnemanz]

The use of 'random' seems to becoming ever more random.

Beware especially if preceded by phrases like OMG, totally (or totes), that was like so ...

[cloughie]

Having never really thought about the word "robust", I checked its etymology. It comes from the Latin for oak tree - surely quite a vivid image with which to describe someone's defence. I quite like a robust claret but I'm not sure where oak trees come in there.

Depends on how long it has been in the barrel prior to bottling!

[Pabmusic]

Having never really thought about the word "robust", I checked its etymology. It comes from the Latin for oak tree - surely quite a vivid image with which to describe someone's defence. I quite like a robust claret but I'm not sure where oak trees come in there.

It's the tannins. Also, I detect traces of vanilla, moth-eaten fur, and old oak...

[gurnemanz]

Depends on how long it has been in the barrel prior to bottling!

Oaky wine ... That should have occurred to me.

[Serial_Apologist]

Having never really thought about the word "robust", I checked its etymology. It comes from the Latin for oak tree - surely quite a vivid image with which to describe someone's defence. I quite like a robust claret but I'm not sure where oak trees come in there.

"Robur" was included in my school's motto - it was certainly a quality that was needed for survival there!

[vinteuil]

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... not forgetting :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robur_the_Conqueror

(tho' it's one of Jules Verne's weaker novels... )

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[french frank]

"Shout-out" (n.) seems to have become endemic on R3 suddenly. And so presumably in the rest of the country? If so I'd managed to dodge it!

Not with the Radio 1 meaning? Which is something like give someone/people a mention/greeting (by request) on a broadcast? Slightly more juvenile than cool or awesome? On Radio 3? How to make people feel alienated

[Serial_Apologist]

Not with the Radio 1 meaning? Which is something like give someone/people a mention/greeting (by request) on a broadcast? Slightly more juvenile than cool or awesome? On Radio 3? How to make people feel alienated

This sort of thing seems to be becoming one of the major signifiers of today's communications age - I've noticed it happening everywhere in the media: TV ads addled with inane, inconsequential fripperies totally irrelevant to the product that seem determined to treat potential consumers like 7-year olds. This is what capitalism's quest to feed the previously unknown desire has now come to. Perhaps an in-depth enquiry is needed into "communications skills" courses and those running them.

[french frank]

"Shout-out" (n.) seems to have become endemic on R3 suddenly. And so presumably in the rest of the country? If so I'd managed to dodge it!

Coming back to this: I'd really like to know the context. Who said it, when, in what programme? What was the context?

[verismissimo]

Don't even start me. Grrr.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Coming back to this: I'd really like to know the context. Who said it, when, in what programme? What was the context?

It's used regularly by one of the weekend 3Breakfast presenters (Martin Handley at a guess) as his standard description of announcements of amateur choral and orchestral concerts round the country. IIRC he uses it when asking listeners to send in such details and when trailing the times when he'll be reading them.

[french frank]

Thanks - not who I'd have expected …

It's used regularly by one of the weekend 3Breakfast presenters (Martin Handley at a guess) as his standard description of announcements of amateur choral and orchestral concerts round the country. IIRC he uses it when asking listeners to send in such details and when trailing the times when he'll be reading them.

[burning dog]

The use of 'random' seems to becoming ever more random.

As was said to me "She sang a totally random song called Joshua"


French Frank

"Shout Out" was once mainly associated with hip-hop as in "a Shout Out to my Crew (entourage)"

[french frank]

French Frank

"Shout Out" was once mainly associated with hip-hop as in "a Shout Out to my Crew (entourage)"

(That would explain why it's used by Radio 3 presenters … )

[verismissimo]

Don't even start me. Grrr.

Quite incorrect. Should be 'Don't get me started', OF COURSE.