What is a word you feel that too many people use?
“Pre-owned” or any other weasel word used to: a.) make people feel better about a decision they shouldn’t feel bad about in the first place. b.) squeeze more money out of the pockets of dimwitted sheeple. Especially when the people developing / using the term were the ones who (re: item “a”) established the psychological taint in the first place, and (re: item “b”) used said taint to manipulate more money out of purchasers of the competing product. [And – having maximized that manipulation – decided to back over the original victims to shake out some more dimes.]
As far as I’m concerned, users of “pre-owned” and similar weasel words should be treated, legally, in the same way as con men who bilk special needs kids or simpletons out of their life savings (because as far as I can see, that’s all they’re doing.)
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maybe I am on a different plane today but for me it’s the inflationary (or worse) use of ‘darling’ – especially people less than half my age nowadays get a dose of the grumpy old woman when they use it at me …
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PS years and years ago, I stopped at a petrol station drive-through where the
female check-out called me sweetheart and I baffled asked in return ‘what do you call your sweetheart if you call me sweetheart? The other woman had to think for a sec and then replied: Have not got one. At which we both laughed heartily. Just so the readers here see there is another side to the grumpy old woman… 😏
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