UK Unemployment on the up!

fc123

Dan: wrote: »

I admire your confidence Zammo, me old mucker, but your over-confidence is your weakness.

Hubris......downfall of many a human.

Generali

fc123 wrote: »

Hubris......downfall of many a human.

Great word hubris. The second best in the English language (ok borrowed by the great magpie that is the English language).

fc123

Generali wrote: »

Great word hubris. The second best in the English language (ok borrowed by the great magpie that is the English language).

What's the first?

Generali

fc123 wrote: »

What's the first?

Quincunx.

It's great in many ways:

1. It sounds very rude but isn't
2. Some friends and I discovered the word and then went into the back garden and found we were renting a house that contained one.
3. It means a group of five objects (usually trees) laid out in the shape of the 5 pips side of a dice and every language needs a word that means that!

fc123

Generali wrote: »

Quincunx.

It's great in many ways:

1. It sounds very rude but isn't
2. Some friends and I discovered the word and then went into the back garden and found we were renting a house that contained one.
3. It means a group of five objects (usually trees) laid out in the shape of the 5 pips side of a dice and every language needs a word that means that!

Going to try and use it one day...perhaps to a staff member at the garden centre. 'I need 5 trees, I am planting a quincunx tomorrow'.

Zammo

fc123 wrote: »

So you are going to have to get your customers / clients / guests (whatever the visitors to the job centre are called now) into work, any work.
You may have to give them a more positive description too QUOTE; workshy, sub human scum UNQUOTE. It may help the process.

I don't want to be too personal, but you can't be on a gigantic wage so don't you stress about the ammount of mortgage debt (shiny BTL's) you are liable for?

I'm not worried at all fc. When I buy at the bottom in a few years time it's not going to be long before this whole pitiful cycle begins once again and the equity starts racking up. Plus I have a nice little cushion that I've built up in this present cycle.

Bring on the unemployment!

:beer::T:beer:

neverdespairgirl

Generali wrote: »

Quincunx.

German has some quite good words - "Schleptop" for a very heavy portable computer is a great one. And "Schadenfreude" is a useful word as well.

Yiddish also has some good words, such as "Chutzpah".

I love English, though. The precision given by such a large vocab is amazing. For example, in Polish there is no difference in the words or concepts foe "shade" and "shadow". English allows subtlety of thought.

Generali

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

German has some quite good words - "Schleptop" for a very heavy portable computer is a great one. And "Schadenfreude" is a useful word as well.

Yiddish also has some good words, such as "Chutzpah".

I love English, though. The precision given by such a large vocab is amazing. For example, in Polish there is no difference in the words or concepts foe "shade" and "shadow". English allows subtlety of thought.

Chutzpa's been taken in to English although it seems to be dying out.

There's a German insult which translates as, 'he wears mittens to make snowballs'.

Schdenfreude is great as you say. Zeitgeist (spirit of the times) is good too.

Melvyn Bragg wrote a fantastic book about the English language.

neverdespairgirl

Yes, Zeitguist is a very useful word.

I love language, it's such a joy to explore.

Dan:_4

Zammo wrote: »

I'm not worried at all fc. When I buy at the bottom in a few years time it's not going to be long before this whole pitiful cycle begins once again and the equity starts racking up. Plus I have a nice little cushion that I've built up in this present cycle.

Bring on the unemployment!

:beer::T:beer:

:rotfl: Good luck with that my friend.