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* burgles. I tend to ignore these types of news articles, of the format: "[Pokemon Go/AirBnB/Uber/New Thing] used in crime!". Crime remains the same, the lands
by fredley 10y ago
* burgles.
I tend to ignore these types of news articles, of the format: "[Pokemon Go/AirBnB/Uber/New Thing] used in crime!". Crime remains the same, the landscape and tools change. Crime rates have been dropping for decades, and continue to fall, new technologies are not bringing in a new crimewave, although you wouldn't know it from reading some news sources.
- ciaranm 10y agoDid you read the article? It's a police blog - and has a list of things to consider doing when letting a place on AirBnB et al. Doesn't at all appear to be what you think it is. Certainly not just a 'new article'.
- ryanlol 10y agoAre you sure? Specifically the list of things to consider seems to be something that gets posted over and over again, slightly modified for different contexts. There's been no lack of articles about burglars using social media sites to find empty homes, google "facebook burglary tips" (sans quotes) for lots of examples.
- Someone1234 10y agoBurglarize and burgles are synonyms, the correction is unneeded.
- andyjohnson0 10y agofredley looks to be from the UK, where we say "burgle" and nobody says "burglarize". Since the article is in a US publication, the use burglarize is fine, but it probably looks strange to non-USians.
- GordonS 10y agoAlso from the UK. Here the word 'burglarize' actually sounds quite ridiculous, like a word made up for comedy effect. Indeed, my wife just burst out laughing when I told her about 'burglarize', which she'd never heard before.
- linker3000 10y agoHave to agree (I'm in the UK too); horrible word. Could be worse - at least we weren't told that the person cancellized the accommodation they'd previously reservized on AirBnB.
- cpr 10y agoFrom the US, but I agree. It's part of the "police bureaucratic mentality" to Latinize and inflate common concepts to make them sound more important (to uneducated ears, at least).
- mikeash 10y agoMy favorite one is always "rate of speed." It gets used everywhere in policing, apparently, but it's completely ridiculous. The whole basis of the concept of "speed" is that it's a rate!
- fitchjo 10y agoThanks for the constructive criticism, gents. Cheerio!
- wlesieutre 10y agoI'm from the US and it still sounds silly. Americans - You can do a similar structure with any word that has noun/verb forms if you want to imagine how dumb we sound to other English speakers. "Sure was exciting to watch Phelps swimmerize that last race!"