tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4847538647112844693.post7140470080101195876..comments2023-09-28T13:18:51.860+01:00Comments on the rightness of wayward sentiment: i hope your empowerment kills youPhoeneciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08358887663281708976noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4847538647112844693.post-91454813401988978532009-05-06T16:24:00.000+01:002009-05-06T16:24:00.000+01:00Ouch. Vacant, jaded, cynical, snarky, and simple a...Ouch. Vacant, jaded, cynical, snarky, and simple all in one. I've been damned to blogger comment hell by an anonymous anti-fan.<br /><br />Well, I certainly won't take that lying down. I think you missed the point. Did you even read what I wrote? Did you read what David wrote? Just to spell it out for you (yes, that's a bit patronising, but I'll put a smiley face here :) and then you'll feel better about it), there's nothing cynical, jaded, or snarky about laughing at corporate branding thugs trying to redefine the concept of empowerment. I'm all for linguistic manipulation and evolution - you'll not find an advocate of an English-styled <I> Office québécois de la langue française </I> in me - yet I still like the point Barrie makes about the meaninglessness of a word like empowerment if it can be used by D-list celebrity gurus and blue-sky thinking management consultants.<br /><br />Since when did asking questions = being simple?Phoeneciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08358887663281708976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4847538647112844693.post-55420474801430861832009-05-06T15:52:00.000+01:002009-05-06T15:52:00.000+01:00Swear to God, my little ferret-faced fan of tom-FO...Swear to God, my little ferret-faced fan of tom-FOOLERY, 'twas not I!<br /><br />All my efforts and being spent in trying to keep the civilised world as we know it running without collapse or fear of implosion.The Philosopherhttp://cicerosquill.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4847538647112844693.post-7984166852359120752009-05-06T14:37:00.000+01:002009-05-06T14:37:00.000+01:00wow, I feel empowered to know that you are... JADE...wow, I feel empowered to know that you are... JADED and very SIMPLE. anyone can write a blog and choose a word like 'empower' and create a snarky cynical number of paragraphs... and you're leading example has just 'empowered' others to do likewise and be as vacant. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4847538647112844693.post-81174977200103952152009-05-06T13:59:00.000+01:002009-05-06T13:59:00.000+01:00reading that last paragraph I am reminded this swe...reading that last paragraph I am reminded this sweltering afternoon of two passages from texts I discovered as a young man (wheezing modernity and its industrious language, its words, described by a philosophical Southerner as "rubbed smooth and unrecognizable and the new currency not yet minted") and as a young boy (I will sing unto the Lord a new song). Not yet minted. <br /><br />Speaking of mint, nothing goes better with it than bourbon. But <A HREF="http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/percy-l/2004-March/000700.html" REL="nofollow">you don't have to take my word for it.</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com