Comments on: Stuff http://www.here.org.uk/2008/11/stuff.html Welcome to Kieron's blog - the life and times of an Internet Marketeer Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:03:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Women's Clothes http://www.here.org.uk/2008/11/stuff.html/comment-page-1#comment-10517 Women's Clothes Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:41:48 +0000 http://www.here.org.uk/?p=1231#comment-10517 Coffee won the Revels poll? Pah! Some people have no taste. ;) Coffee won the Revels poll? Pah! Some people have no taste. ;)

]]> By: Craig Parker http://www.here.org.uk/2008/11/stuff.html/comment-page-1#comment-10502 Craig Parker Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:40:17 +0000 http://www.here.org.uk/?p=1231#comment-10502 I enjoyed Top Gear this week, it's totally true people are getting dull with their choices but one of the reasons is that alternate colours are becom,ing increasingly stupid, hyper metallic burnt orange and pearl-mint are not very nice alternatives! I have to disagree about the coffee Revels though, toffee and chocolate all the way! I enjoyed Top Gear this week, it’s totally true people are getting dull with their choices but one of the reasons is that alternate colours are becom,ing increasingly stupid, hyper metallic burnt orange and pearl-mint are not very nice alternatives!

I have to disagree about the coffee Revels though, toffee and chocolate all the way!

]]> By: matt http://www.here.org.uk/2008/11/stuff.html/comment-page-1#comment-10493 matt Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:39:07 +0000 http://www.here.org.uk/?p=1231#comment-10493 Stuff ... sometimes 'stuff' can be just the right word ... a bunch of stuff. But sometimes it's the user being lazy - shades of Orwell's 'newspeak' there, unused words fall out of the vocabulary, and the less words that are available the less we can say. The translation for 'stuff/thingy/wotsit' is useful to know when learning a foreign language though, it can very useful when you don't know the real word to use, and makes you sound like a local too. (In french it's 'truc', pronounced 'trook'. I must be feeling linguistically philosophical today! - m Stuff … sometimes ‘stuff’ can be just the right word … a bunch of stuff. But sometimes it’s the user being lazy – shades of Orwell’s ‘newspeak’ there, unused words fall out of the vocabulary, and the less words that are available the less we can say.

The translation for ‘stuff/thingy/wotsit’ is useful to know when learning a foreign language though, it can very useful when you don’t know the real word to use, and makes you sound like a local too. (In french it’s ‘truc’, pronounced ‘trook’.

I must be feeling linguistically philosophical today!

- m

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