The Nose: Intolerable Jargon Is Trending
The Nose rounds up the week in pop culture.
Published: Sep 30, 2011
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The Nose: Intolerable Jargon Is Trending
Today on the Nose we'll run through a grab-bag of topics, starting with the the search for meaning in Red Sox Nation following the collapse of the crimson hose.
As we get ready to go on the air, the Twitterverse has already pronounced manager Terry Francona a goner, even though the actual reporting doesn't really back it up. And Slate magazine is exploring the theology of the Curse of the Bambino. Maybe it never went away.
Michael Kinsley's leads off his current Bloomberg column this way: "Look, I’m sorry, but New Jersey Governor Chris Christie cannot be president: He is just too fat." This is an issue we haven't had to grapple with for a long time.
We're all being driven slowly crazy by business jargon. I'm currently rattled, in particular, by the word "trending."
Lastly, with a new spate of sitcoms on network television, we'll ponder our own attitudes toward the laugh track.
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EMAIL FROM RAND:
I’m hoping that Christ Christie does not get in the race. I’ve watched a number of clips of him dealing with various confrontational situations, and he presents a mix of qualities that would be very attractive to a lot of voters, and very hard to run against. Check this one out, for instance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkuTm-ON904
He responds at a Town Hall meeting to a teacher who slams him with what would be the typical liberal attempt at a take down. And he lets her have it. He really gives her a spanking – and it’s vehement, yet it never seems gratuitous, largely because he ties it point by point to a recitation of the facts on the ground. No way Perry or Mitt or any of those other clowns (with the exception of Gingrich, and he’s irrelevant) could do this. What Christie represents is a mix of three qualities: intelligence, anger, and honesty. That’s what the Republicans should aim for. Christie always gives you the feeling that he’s telling you the truth as he sees it. You can disagree with him, of course. You can argue with him. His ideas may be full of shit, but he presents them with blank directness and a good deal of practical articulateness. Obama’s people should be praying he doesn’t get in.
EMAIL FROM LYDIA:
Thank you for the great show. I wish that I could listen at work and not just in my car but that is a different issue.
Peeve: “Less” versus “fewer”
It started with “Less” calories in beer, when the correct version should be “fewer” calories.
Last night my husband and I saw a Mercedes Benz commercial in which the tag line was, “More power, less doors.” We both responded by shouting “FEWER!” at the TV. Another reason we tend not to watch commercial television…
What the heck?
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