#WordInflation - Twitter Hashtag

over 3 years ago

"Fulsome praise" means "excessive, flattering" to me. But people seem to use it now for "very full". It seems to be another case of #WordInflation, like "incidences" for "incidents" (Sunak yesterday), adding another syllable for effect? #Fulsome

david wheatley @nemoloris

over 3 years ago

Nick Laird in the NYRB on 2000 pages of Auden. Is ‘fulsome’ ‘good’ again now then, as in ‘fulsome praise’. I sense its meaning bobs about.

nemoloris's tweet photo. Nick Laird in the NYRB on 2000 pages of Auden. Is ‘fulsome’ ‘good’ again now then, as in ‘fulsome praise’. I sense its meaning bobs about. https://t.co/apBeDxxff7

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Edward Vanderpump @BoswellAffleck

almost 4 years ago

@eggsbened @tds153 @BBCFrontRow Yes, what I call #WordInflation. We see it in people's preference for 'incidences' over 'incidents' or thinking 'fulsome' is just a more impressive word for 'full'.

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Scott C. Johnston

@SJohnston60

almost 4 years ago

@LindseyBoylan Perhaps you should look up the definition of “fascism?” #WordInflation

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Boomer4Biden @dperugi

almost 4 years ago

I think Biden should get his economic advisor to make a speech explaining why inflation is a problem right now in all of the developed world and what the plans are to rectify it. Then dare the GOP to explain their plan. #inflation #wordinflation #covid #climatechange

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Steve Hilton

@SteveHiltonx

almost 5 years ago

"the statistic that 78% of the people who died or were hospitalized with covid were overweight...that's not 'fat-shaming' that's fatsplaining...it's what the CDC should be doing" 🎯 from start to finish in this brilliant @billmaher on how the left abuse language #WordInflation

Bill Maher

@billmaher

almost 5 years ago

Word inflation is a problem. You can try to change reality by redefining the words, but you can't. It's Orwellian and Orwell never ends well. #Newspeak

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Edward Vanderpump @BoswellAffleck

about 5 years ago

@Kcecelia @StanCarey @bgzimmer @Fritinancy Yes #WordInflation widespread: 'fulsome' for 'full' and 'methodology' for 'method' occur to me as a couple of other examples where the speaker/writer is searching for impressive vocabulary, perhaps not always with scrupulous motives?

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