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  • Tsar RANT
  • iDave
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    Note to govt and media

    Tsar (also spelled czar, tzar or csar) is a title used to designate certain monarchs or supreme rulers.

    In Russia and Bulgaria the imperial connotations of the term were blurred with time and, by the 19th century, it had come to be viewed as an equivalent of King.

    FFS Frank Field is not a phuckin tsar, he's in charge of a committee. STOP CALLING PEOPLE TSARS WHEN THEY'RE NOT AND NEVER WILL BE. There is NO 'poverty tsar' or 'respect tsar' – there isn't OK!

    And stop calling the merest hint of scandal 'sometingGATE' – Watergate, fine the building was called Watergate. EverythingelseGate – NO. And I'm not even drunk.

    ooOOoo
    Free Member

    You're right it's a big problem, they should call it 'Tsargate'

    bassspine
    Free Member

    it's lazy journalism, and I hate it when they obviously don't understand the actual meaning of the phrase they are stealing.

    Recently seen misused far too often 'pay tribute to'

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    MrWoppit
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    Yes, isn't it awful how language just seems to mutate and evolve over time? Tch! Personally, I think we should all be talking Chaucerian English.

    Call a thrustle a thrustle, that's what I say… 🙄

    ernie_lynch
    Free Member

    it's lazy journalism

    TBH, I thought the term originated from the spin doctors/politicians during the John Major's time, rather than a Fleet Street invention. Could wrong though.

    The "gate" thing is definitely a journalistic invention, and it does annoy me, as it is completely pointless to use it in situations which are not even vaguely simular to Watergate.

    But then there is so much about journalism which annoys me, and much of it is indeed just "laziness".

    iDave
    Free Member

    Woppit, in Surrye whilom dwelte a compaignye of chapmen riche, and therto sadde and trewe, innit

    scaredypants
    Full Member

    well yeah, xxxxgate is poor, since watergate was a place and not a scandal relating to water

    not really any more kack than xxxxaholic though

    tzars, mandarins, … govt/media well up themselves; tell us something new

    it's misuse of "refute" that makes me laugh though – they're either thick, or hoping that history will suggest that charges against them were genuinely disproven rather than just denied indignantly and guiltily

    Edric64
    Free Member

    , mandarins,Ducks or oranges?

    Northwind
    Full Member

    ernie_lynch – Member

    "TBH, I thought the term originated from the spin doctors/politicians during the John Major's time, rather than a Fleet Street invention. Could wrong though."

    Woodrow Wilson administration originally.

    ernie_lynch
    Free Member

    D'you know Northwind, after I posted I thought "it probably originated from the states" …….as most things like that tend to. But I didn't know that – cheers mate. So it's origins are political/party propaganda then – rather than journalistic.

    scaredypants
    Full Member

    So it's origins are political/party propaganda then – rather than journalistic

    not sure there's a very thick line between the two, TBH 😐

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