Does it annoy you, too? Someone invents a word in a spur of a moment, to make a clever commentary about something ("handi-capable" or "banksters") and it's all fine but it becomes annoying when the word makes it into mainstream, replacing the original word ("handicapped" or "bankers") in ordinary conversations, being used without the air quotes etc. Grrr.
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Most slang terms never end up replacing the original word.
Bankster has been around for quite a while. Degrelle used it in the '30s. It has not replaced banker as well.
Quote from: Martinus on October 06, 2012, 01:55:11 AM
Does it annoy you, too? Someone invents a word in a spur of a moment, to make a clever commentary about something ("handi-capable" or "banksters") and it's all fine but it becomes annoying when the word makes it into mainstream, replacing the original word ("handicapped" or "bankers") in ordinary conversations, being used without the air quotes etc. Grrr.
It would probably annoy me if I lived in a backwards eastern European country who is more than 10 years behind the hipster vernacular calendar, yeah.