Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Special language update!!!! Breaking!!!! Urgent!!!!
Professor Polistra is BELEAGUERED and EMBATTLED by BELEAGUERED and EMBATTLED!!!!
These words are suddenly ubiquitous. Crack mayor Rob Ford is BELEAGUERED and EMBATTLED!!!! Obamacare is BELEAGUERED and EMBATTLED!!!! The Oregon state healthcare website, which hasn't even started to work, is BELEAGUERED and EMBATTLED!!!!
What did these words originally mean? They imply that an innocent person or organization or country is being attacked on all sides by vicious enemies armed with spears and catapults and crossbows.
What do they mean in current usage? They mean publicly exposed, by its own actions, as a total failure.
The original connotation is sneakily imported along with the words, to infect the public with a sense that these complete failures are innocent little bystanders being overrun by filthy Visigoth hordes.
Professor Polistra is BELEAGUERED and EMBATTLED by BELEAGUERED and EMBATTLED!!!!
These words are suddenly ubiquitous. Crack mayor Rob Ford is BELEAGUERED and EMBATTLED!!!! Obamacare is BELEAGUERED and EMBATTLED!!!! The Oregon state healthcare website, which hasn't even started to work, is BELEAGUERED and EMBATTLED!!!!
What did these words originally mean? They imply that an innocent person or organization or country is being attacked on all sides by vicious enemies armed with spears and catapults and crossbows.
What do they mean in current usage? They mean publicly exposed, by its own actions, as a total failure.
The original connotation is sneakily imported along with the words, to infect the public with a sense that these complete failures are innocent little bystanders being overrun by filthy Visigoth hordes.Labels: Language update
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