offensive meat

[mercia]

this story amused me

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-26321257

the rest of the shop is full of chopped up carcases but somehow the sight of recognisable dead animals is offensive. A strange disconnect between what we are eating and where it came from. What would our greatgrandparents have made of this sensitivity to reality ? In centuries gone by didn't the butcher also slaughter the animals round the back of the shop, so presumably most high streets would have resounded to the screams of pigs in their death throes ?

[James Wonnacott]

It's a butcher's shop, what would you expect to find there? County's gone mad. (but I think the "due" should be "owing", only buses and trains are due)

[mercia]

apparently this was a story run by the Daily Mail on Monday, so apologies to all of a sensitive disposition when it comes to newspapers

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2568028/How-Middle-England-took-meat-cleaver-political-correctness.html

[jean]

It is true though that butchers don't often display whole pigs' heads any more - probably because they don't sell them, as no-one would know what to do with them.

(but I think the "due" should be "owing", only buses and trains are due)

(Anything can be due, so long as the verb to be is there to keep it adjectival.)

[slarty]

I suppose that a Fishmonger displaying his wares in a similar manner will be next. What. are we coming to? A return to Victorian sensibilities?

[Beef Oven!]

this story amused me

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-26321257

the rest of the shop is full of chopped up carcases but somehow the sight of recognisable dead animals is offensive. A strange disconnect between what we are eating and where it came from. What would our greatgrandparents have made of this sensitivity to reality ? In centuries gone by didn't the butcher also slaughter the animals round the back of the shop, so presumably most high streets would have resounded to the screams of pigs in their death throes ?

Disconnection, please. Disconnect is a verb and you want a noun.

[jean]

Disconnect as a noun has been around for more than a century, and means something subtly different from disconnection.

(Although you can be as censorious as you like about language imported from elsewhere, it is considered rude to criticise directly the language of your fellow posters.)

[Don Petter]

Disconnection, please. Disconnect is a verb and you want a noun.

Quite. We don't want butchered words displayed here, thank you.

[Thropplenoggin]

Disconnection, please. Disconnect is a verb and you want a noun.

Most of the online versions of modern dictionaries, including Collins, accept this new usage.

http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/disconnect

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/disconnect

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/business-english/disconnect_2

I also find such pedantry tiresome in the extreme. Language evolves. That's why we no longer use Chaucerian spelling: that slepen al the nyght with open ye

[Flosshilde]

What. are we coming to? A return to Victorian sensibilities?

I don't think so -



A lot less squeamish about most things - except sex.

I can remember seeing half carcases hanging in butcher's shops 50 years ago.

& scroll down the page in this article -

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1049130/They-healthier--lived-longer-So-copy-Victorian-diet.html

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

(Although you can be as censorious as you like about language imported from elsewhere, it is considered rude to criticise directly the language of your fellow posters.)

I think it depends on the nature of the reproof. This one was in the "harmless" zone.

[Thropplenoggin]

I think it depends on the nature of the reproof. This one was in the "harmless" zone.

In your opinion.

[mercia]

it is considered rude to criticise directly the language of your fellow posters.

no worries. So I ain't offended.

[Beef Oven!]

Quite. We don't want butchered words displayed here, thank you.

Lol!

[Barbirollians]

The article is typical Daily Mail trash suggesting it is about townies - many of the complainants appear to have been locals .