What would you ban and why? (Definitely tearoom!)

I just came on this thread and read the lot to see if there was a consensus on what to ban.

I would ban half of the drivel posted on dirty great big threads, oh and like we have regularly on our menu, Salmon Fish Cakes - just try making a salmon cake without a bit of fish - and it is pan fried in a sodding frying pan.

Ps, my offspring reckon I wrote the Grumpy Old men series of books.

Give me a forum to moan about the things that cannot be changed,

A forum to suggest to others how to change the things they can,

And the wisdom to log off before any replies appear.

"No wonder we find the simple pleasures of machining metal so compelling..."

. . . . . . yes but do we 'hog it out', r'eap it off', 'chew it out of solid', 'whistle a tap through' all according to the 'words and music'.

Martin

So . .

I don't think it's a calque (a word or expression in a language that is a translation of a word or expression in another language - OED) More likely a combination of "flea market" and "eBay".

I would ban posts from pedants like myself!

Russell

I hope no-one thinks I don't just get this stuff from Wikipedia but the joke is that:

"The common English phrase, "flea market", is a phraseological calque of the French "marché aux puces" ("market with fleas",^[6] as are the Czech "bleší trh", the Dutch "vlooienmarkt", the Finnish "kirpputori", the German "Flohmarkt", the Hungarian "bolhapiac", the Italian "mercatino delle pulci", the Polish "pchli targ", the Serbian "buvlja pijaca", the Spanish "mercado de pulgas", the Turkish "bit pazarı", and so on."

ebay probably loath the people who've dissed their trademark. I used to have a local bus company called 'Badger Line', a name carefully chosen by the promoters to project a cuddly image. Unfortunately ungrateful passengers soon talked of nothing but 'Bodger Line'

I too would ban posts from pedants like myself.

Dave

So, it's not a calque (today's new word - thank you) but surely the English language does have a word to describe two phrases concatenated together in an amusing and slightly derogatory manner?

Pedantry rules,

Rod

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I think that would be "a double-barrelled pun", Rod.

[Yes, I know it's not 'a word']

MichaelG.

Surely we pedants would have to insist on that being "a double-barrelled paronomasia"?

I'm a little depressed to find that linguistics is yet another subject about which I know nothing.

..a compound contradiction? An oxymoron?

Amongst the general illiterate public one should be careful of calling anyone a pedant....

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Yeah-but ... then I would have lost the pun on 'gun'

MichaelG.

"I'm a dum dum" the duffer admitted coltishly...

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Boom-Boom !!

Dont feel bad. I took several years of it at uni in a previous life and I still know nothing, including whatever paronomasia is.

Sounds like what We have here.

We should be a comedy duo. Unfortunately "Cannon and Ball" has already been taken...

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We could give it a shot

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 26/08/2016 21:07:41

Things get worse. I knew what paronomasia meant yesterday and now I've forgotten.

It's very strange - these days I remember 1958 like it was yesterday and yesterday like it was 1958!

Dave

AMEN to that.

The Delectable Dr Debs reckons that English isn't my first language.

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I think she may be right

I've run out of gun related humour. The whole thing was a flash in the pan.