Off topic: Word Crimes Thread poster: P.L.F. Persio
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P.L.F. Persio 
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neilmac
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| Literally LOL | Jul 16, 2014 |
I actually laughed out loud a few times at that! Very amusing
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Suzan Hamer
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P.L.F. Persio
Netherlands
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| No joy in Germany | Jul 16, 2014 |
The youtube videos are not viewable here.
"Unfortunately, this video is not available in your country because it could contain music from SME, for which we could not agree on conditions of use with GEMA."
Wanted to check him out after all these years since "Eat it" and "Fat".
He's been going quite a while
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Manuela Junghans
Germany
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| Thanks a lot for sharing... | Jul 17, 2014 |
...missdutch
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Oh Weird Al...
Giving a musical voice to all of us grammar Nazis who cringe and want to throw a Merriam-Websters (hard-cover) at the computer screen every time we open Facebook!
Thank you for sharing, Miss Dutch
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Gail Bond
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| Offensive terms in US vs UK English | Jul 17, 2014 |
A friend of mine has also posted this link on Facebook. Lots of people have commented on the use of the word 'spastic' which is considered offensive here in the UK. I was just wondering whether the term is offensive in US English? Presumably not, otherwise he wouldn't have used it (hopefully!)
I'd just like some opinions to be able to feed back to my friend who simply could not believe that the term would not be just as offensive in US English.
Thanks!
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Miranda Drew
Italy
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| Not offensive | Jul 18, 2014 |
Gail Bond MITI wrote:
A friend of mine has also posted this link on Facebook. Lots of people have commented on the use of the word 'spastic' which is considered offensive here in the UK. I was just wondering whether the term is offensive in US English? Presumably not, otherwise he wouldn't have used it (hopefully!)
I'd just like some opinions to be able to feed back to my friend who simply could not believe that the term would not be just as offensive in US English.
Thanks!
I'm American and as far as I know, in the US "spastic" just means hyperactive, over-excited, at least that's the way it's usually used.
[Edited at 2014-07-18 09:55 GMT]
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Miranda Drew wrote:
I'm American and as far as I know, in the US "spastic" just means hyperactive, over-excited, at least that's the way it's usually used.
[Edited at 2014-07-18 09:55 GMT]
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neilmac
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| Used to be offensive, less nowadays | Jul 18, 2014 |
Gail Bond MITI wrote:
A friend of mine has also posted this link on Facebook. Lots of people have commented on the use of the word 'spastic' which is considered offensive here in the UK. I was just wondering whether the term is offensive in US English? Presumably not, otherwise he wouldn't have used it (hopefully!)
I'd just like some opinions to be able to feed back to my friend who simply could not believe that the term would not be just as offensive in US English.
Thanks!
Terms like "spazz out" are quite common in US English.
https://www.google.com/search?q=spazz%20out
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| For people in Germany, | Jul 20, 2014 |
the video is viewable here - just pause the video that starts automatically (after 5 seconds) and select/play Word Crimes:
http://www.gottabemobile.com/2014/07/15/weird-al-tacky-video-happy/
Personally, I wasn't shocked by the use of "spastic", but another Irish person I shared the video with wrote:
> "Good one! Pity about the spas... See more the video is viewable here - just pause the video that starts automatically (after 5 seconds) and select/play Word Crimes:
http://www.gottabemobile.com/2014/07/15/weird-al-tacky-video-happy/
Personally, I wasn't shocked by the use of "spastic", but another Irish person I shared the video with wrote:
> "Good one! Pity about the spastic comment at the end but I guess he was running out of rhyming options…" ▲ Collapse
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| Saw Weird Al At My Doctor's Office Once | Oct 3, 2014 |
So surprised that he came back to the limelight. His new album was a best-seller. I used to listen to him when I was a kid. The song "Word Crimes" has been a big hit with teachers, translators, speech pathologists whom I know. Pretty cool.
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