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Wow, your office sounds a lot more fun than mine!</p>
<p>Some fun definitions of “hypocrasy” from Urbandictionary.com:</p>
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<li>hypocrasy<br></li>
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<p>A comic misspelling of “hypocrisy” as defined by butthurt forum-goers trying to insult other members. Can be the source of multiple lulz and simultaneous embarrassment by the user trying to appear smart for using a four-syllable word.</p>
<p>“…personally I call that “hypocrasy”. Look it up.”</p>
<p>“Haha, I can’t look it up if it is not spelled right.”</p>
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<li>hypocracy<br></li>
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<p>A democracy governed by hypocrites. The British government advocates moral standards to which it does not conform. Britain’s political system is therefore a hypocracy.</p>
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<li>hypocracy<br></li>
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<p>What Democracy turns into when all of the politicians in your country are liars.</p>
<p>When no party/President that wins the election manages to keep its/his own ideology, and instead, keeps changing it every time it/he feels like it, that’s no democracy. That’s hypocracy.</p>
<p>My 12yo son informed that that our form of government is a “mediacracy”.
Yes, that’s a democracy where people’s opinions are controlled by the media.</p>
<p>“Very unique”</p>
<p>Good one dmd!</p>
<p>Here is perhaps the most common error: I will try and explain.</p>
<p>Why try if one is going to explain anyway?! If, however, one is unsure of the results of one’s efforts, one should say: I will try to explain.</p>
<p>I hope I explained that. ;)</p>
<p>Or if you try, and succeed, maybe there won’t be so much explaining to do!</p>
<p>“I will try and explain…” always sounds like an insult as if they were saying ‘it’s going to be difficult because you are so stupid.’ </p>
<p>People don’t pay enough attention to the connotation of words and phrases as well as the denotation.</p>
<p>Good one, geomom, were it not for those well placed commas I would have used your example as more fuel for the fire!</p>
<p>Novelisto - You can look at it that way or you can turn the table and see just how good an explainer that person is, since he’s admitting that it is going to be an effort on his part! lol</p>
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<p>And “free gift.”</p>
<p>It’s the kind that does not come with strings attached, in the same category as a free lunch. :)</p>
<p>When I worked in London, the Brits used to complain about a form devised by Americans, asking what our “future plans” were. It’s like “going forward.” One does not plan for the past or goes backward.</p>
<p>One CAN go backward: use up valuable time in a planning meeting to talk in detail about all that went wrong in the past.</p>
<p>That’s when “going forward” can help: when meetings about future plans are being held up by looking at what low hanging fruit was not picked in the recent past.</p>
<p>Kei</p>
<p>“It’s the kind that does not come with strings attached, in the same category as a free lunch.”</p>
<p>That ia a quid pro quo – not a gift.</p>
<p>Re: post 171: A post-mortem can be valuable. But planning backward? " My plan, going forward, is to do engage in no more useless analysis of what went wrong."
Free lunches are supposed to be gifts; of course they’re not. That’s why Americans have felt compelled to distinguish between gifts and free gifts.:)</p>
<p>I must be un-American then because I think the word ‘gift’ is clearly something free, and it is redundant to say “free gift”.</p>
<p>It is… unless it is not. Ask the average American the meaning of quid pro quo and you’ll get a blank stare.</p>
<p>You don’t happen to have read offers of " gift of a beautiful toilet bag, valued at $…, free and at no cost to you, if you buy $… worth of cosmetics"? Lucky you.</p>
<p>No, and if I saw such an ad I would ignore it – not because I don’t use cosmetics (which I don’t), mind you!</p>
<p>The term ‘free lunch’ and ‘ain’t no such thing as a free lunch’ comes from the old saloon days. They’d lay out a big spread with a sign saying…you guessed it…Free Lunch. The problem is that you had to pay for the drinks, which were over-inflated and undersized. Yes, the food was free but they made sure you bought enough drinks to make up for the ‘free.’</p>
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<p>The average American, perhaps - but apparently not the folks from New Jersey . . .</p>
<p>So how much quo do they want for their quid(s)?</p>
<p>I bet they’d know what tit for tat means.</p>
<p>As Mama Morton put it, “I deserve a lot of tat for what I’ve got to give…”</p>