Not only is the undeserved praise of the brain a linguistic problem, the downgrading is also an old mistake! So, for example, the number of people is a piece, and significant achievements are a dozen words. As much as it is an unfortunate word to call stars e...
Read moreThe press lives the fashion of unbridled words. These can sometimes be misunderstood, and moreover, amusing statements emerge. The functionless exaggerations, the brutal, the fantastic, the horroristic, and for more and more people...
Read moreWords with a violent meaning often appear in communications where there is no mention of rudeness, in fact, we are talking about the exact opposite. A whole legion of self-aggrandizing expressions is displayed in the...
Read moreLinguistic arrogance goes without a collar in the media and in everyday writing and speech. An example of this is the endless expansion of the meaning of the noun philosophy, its use that does not fit the context. The more than once insightful, but self-serving...
Read moreThe number of gray and hackneyed buzzwords is multiplied by the decisive adjective and its adverbial derivative, crucially. And they have plenty of synonyms! The use of our decisive adjective is correct when it is about a decisive battle, match (something...
Read moreThe original word wow is weird even in live music. the contagion of the buzzword that has become a fashion expression, and its bite into the written language (transliterated: váó!, vau!, vaou!, váóu!) is amusing, even laughable. From our four-legged friends...
Read moreToday's press parades a whole series of selfishly exaggerating, catchy words and expressions. The significant expansion of the word queen, for example, in the coverage of beauty contests - regardless of the fact that this...
Read moreThe excellent Angéla Molnos wrote a psychology book - without a single foreign word. Purism, says the knowledge-flaunting worshiper of foreign words. I agree! says the strict gatekeeper of our mother tongue. The truth lies between these two, as...
Read moreThe on-duty censors of writing and speech handle pampering, comfort, or the denial of it with a single word: the verb pamper. It has become a trite buzzword - along with several other companions - now this too, the...
Read moreTo the point of meaninglessness, the word secure is often included in everyday speech and writing, as well as in the media. The linguist Zoltán Lévai calls these kinds of trite buzzwords, repeated without meaning, "jolly joker words". The insurance...
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