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This here reminds me of George Carlin: > People add extra words when they want things to sound more important than they really are. "Boarding process". Sounds
by chx 4y ago
This here reminds me of George Carlin:
> People add extra words when they want things to sound more important than they really are. "Boarding process". Sounds important. It isn't. It's just a bunch of people getting on an airplane. People like to sound important. Weathermen on Television talk about shower activity. Sounds more important than showers. I even heard one guy on CNN talk about a rain event. I swear to God. He said, "Louisiana's expecting a rain event". I said, "holy shit I hope I can get tickets to that!"
> News people like to say “police have responded to an emergency situation.” No they haven’t, they’ve responded to an emergency. We know it’s a situation… everything is a situation!
- cwillu 4y agoMy personal peave is “utilize”: it's just an excuse to use the letter “z” in a sentence.
- AlbertCory 4y agoGreat example. Also "access" as in "they can access health care." How about "they can receive health care"? "They can get health care"?
- Dracophoenix 4y agoI'm not a doctor, but there are differences between the two words: "access" generally refers to capability and/or proximity whereas "receive" generally refers to eligibility for a particular service or prescription. The word "get", is a vague expression of either of the former two words, but in common parlance is understood to be the latter.
- derbOac 4y agoThe case of "access" I think is partly two avoid two things. First, it's to avoid implying that the concern is about getting treatment, as opposed to being evaluated for it or being set up in the system. Second, it's to avoid implying that the potential patient's concern is about "getting" something at all, as opposed to being eligible for it, in the sense that they could get it if it were necessary. Access as an idea is very important in healthcare equity, because it avoids a lot of the political baggage that is attached to the less resourced obtaining those resources. If you have critics that are accusing the poor of just hoarding things, you want to clarify that what they're getting is eligibility or entrance, not the resources per se. Access is about being able to get drugs if you want and need it, not getting drugs per se.
- Panzer04 4y agoIf you're American, anyway :). Though default autocorrects are trying to globalise the Z over S anyway :(.