Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[LMcD]

Slow radio.

What is this supposed to mean? Neither the output nor the bit of kit itself can be slow. So I suppose this is meant to indicate that the listener slows down.

Is the news fast? Is Gardener's Question Time medium-paced?

Special programmes for the less quick-witted?

[gurnemanz]

Slow radio.

What is this supposed to mean?

In my case: move fast - to switch channels

[french frank]

Slow radio.

What is this supposed to mean? Neither the output nor the bit of kit itself can be slow. So I suppose this is meant to indicate that the listener slows

It has become an article of faith that life has speeded up so much that it is now necessary for Radio 3 to provide a corrective. Audiences should take plenty of time to relax, not tax their brains at all, put on their blinkers and generally … slow down. This is now what parts of Radio 3 are for. They seem to have replaced the output which is intellectually stimulating, 'demanding' listening (i.e. needing full attention). First rule of Slow Radio: Do not make demands on your listeners.

[kernelbogey]

It has become an article of faith that life has speeded up so much that it is now necessary for Radio 3 to provide a corrective. Audiences should take plenty of time to relax, not tax their brains at all, put on their blinkers and generally … slow down. This is now what parts of Radio 3 are for. They seem to have replaced the output which is intellectually stimulating, 'demanding' listening (i.e. needing full attention). First rule of Slow Radio: Do not make demands on your listeners.

So another example of R3 now promoting the notion that music should do something to you.

[ardcarp]

Switching on was much quicker in pre digital days!

It certainly was, except a LONG time ago. My grandparents bought a TV in 1953 to watch the Queen's Coronation. It had a tiny screen, was more like a piece of furniture, and you had to wait ages for the VALVES to warm up!

[Bryn]

It certainly was, except a LONG time ago. My grandparents bought a TV in 1953 to watch the Queen's Coronation. It had a tiny screen, was more like a piece of furniture, and you had to wait ages for the VALVES to warm up!

I recall traipsing round to an uncle's house to watch on such a set. This was some years before my parents had a set of their own.

On a related issue, why do they continue to broadcast the pips on digital radio. They are received and decoded well past the time they are intended to indicate, and that time lag varies from receiver to receiver.

[Serial_Apologist]

Operationalise - or operationalize: used by Zahawi on the lunchtime news an hour ago to describe putting new vaccine treatments into operation.

Presumably operationaliseability has to follow, which even my Windows 10 American spell check doesn't like. What was wrong with implement?

[kernelbogey]

What was wrong with implement?

That would be calling a spade a spade!

[french frank]

So another example of R3 now promoting the notion that music should do something to you.

For Radio 3, as a broadcaster, that's surely been the great seismic shift: no longer music for itself, ars gratia artis, but for what effect it has, how it chimes in with your mood, its health benefits.

[LMcD]

Operationalise - or operationalize: used by Zahawi on the lunchtime news an hour ago to describe putting new vaccine treatments into operation.

Presumably operationaliseability has to follow, which even my Windows 10 American spell check doesn't like. What was wrong with implement?

I think such words should be promptly de-operationalized.

[gradus]

Chat/Chatting as used by Vodafone to mean endless b****y typing to get a technical query answered when actual chatting could resolve it quickly.

[Padraig]

Here are some suggestions in terms of the use of 'in terms of'.

https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/another-word-for/in_terms_of.html

[Bryn]

The term "halves" as used at Eton College.

[vinteuil]

The term "halves" as used at Eton College.

... well, it's preparation for a world of halves and halve-nots, innit.

Tho' they're more used to haves and have-yachts



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[Serial_Apologist]

Here are some suggestions in terms of the use of 'in terms of'.

https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/an..._terms_of.html

I've seen the word "anent" used here on the forum - I didn't know what anent meant, never having encountered it before.