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paul fox - 2016-05-12
In response to Re Faking relevance (PhD teacher)

Quite right but 'google it' has become an expression like 'hoover it' "Hoover up that
mess you Chinese Hussy because up with this I will not put!" She certainly won't
exclaim, before you box her ears again "I can't because we don't have any hoovers
in China, only vacuum cleaners!

Ha, and most Chinese women have no idea how to use a vacuum cleaner. When I first met my (now) wife, I told her that I wanted to buy a vacuum cleaner. 'Oh, I've got one', she said, 'I never use it, you can have it'. Later that day I went to collect it from her place and she presented me with what appeared to be a brand new vacuum cleaner, still in the original unopened box. The purchase receipt was taped to the box and showed a purchase date that was 5 years earlier. So there you have it, a perfect contradiction-in-terms when I say I ended up with a 'brand new', yet 5 year-old, vacuum. lol

'Up with this I will not put' - Love it! Classic Churchill telling Amused's great-grandmother how to end a sentence with a preposition. haha

As for 'Googling' and 'Hoovering', there are heaps of brand names that have found their way into the English language as a verb.

What about 'Velcro', 'Xerox', 'FaceBook' ? I wonder how many there are, lol

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Re Faking relevance -- paul fox -- 2016-05-11
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