If there is one thing we learned from tonight’s debates on ABC, it is that the word “change” – formerly so useful – must now be banned from the English language. I will regret losing it, but the poor parole has been put been in disgrace and rendered meaningless by a collection of nitwit politicians and pundits, so sayonara to “change.” It’s been nice knowing you. We give you your gold watch – bye bye. From here on in, when we hear someone say that he or she wants “change” or that he or she, worse yet, is a “change agent,” the offending “c-word” user shall be sent to Siberia – or Iowa.
In any other context I’d be afraid to say this to a politician, but now … KEEP THE CHANGE!!!
Heh… NRO was playing a drinking game last night liveblogging on the corner. Every mention of change, you drink. I think you drink twice if Edwards mentioned that his parents worked at a mill.
WellSpring,
Yep, I was drunk before it was half over… Not a game to be taken lightly…
I have always been amused that when politicians talk about “change” what they really mean is “improvement”–though the truth is that they offer little of either.
Change is easy to effect; drive on the left side of the freeway if your life needs a quick change.
Making life (or government, or anything else) actually *better* is a completely different subject.
Plus √ßa change…
Jamie Irons
The above was a nice try…
That incomprehensible second word was supposed to be the French “c with cedille followed by a,” and I even used the correct HTML code but… well, you see the results…
Jamie Irons
“the word “change” – formerly so useful – must now be banned from the English language. I will regret losing it, but the poor parole has been put been in disgrace and rendered meaningless by a collection of nitwit politicians and pundits…”
I respectfully disagree about the ‘formerly so useful’ qualifier. My introduction to it was during the 60s when propagandists used the term ‘social change’ as a smokescreen to disguise the close relationship that their ’causes’ held with the hard left – which they knew that the public would not accept if stated directly.
Nitwit politicians and pundits are no new thing, and the use of “change” as an undefined codeword has been disgusting for four decades already.
If we are going to be retiring words and phrases, I’d like to nominate:
“world class”
and
“state of the art”
It looks like “surge” is going to quickly join “change”, but it may be a passing fad hopefully