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« Reply #1 on: Yesterday at 10:03 »
Day on day, week on week I find less that's worth reading on the newspaper websites. It's just all clickbait.  And one thing that really annoys me is the proliferation of headlines that end "Here's how".  Are we really being treated that stupidly that we need telling?

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« Reply #2 on: Yesterday at 10:24 »
I am fed up with “ celebrities” I have never heard of!
There seem to be thousands, what have they done to be called a celebrity?
When you think of the many wonderful people doing valuable voluntary work who seek no publicity, they are often nominated by colleagues who feel some recognition is warranted.

It is an odd world.
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« Reply #3 on: Yesterday at 12:19 »
I agree with you. There is an army of "celebrities" I've never heard of , and real newspapers no longer exist.  No wonder the internet has millions of people trying to find out what on earth is going on ! Plus I dont want to marry myself either , I couldnt finish the cake by myself (doctor will tell me off)
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« Reply #4 on: Yesterday at 12:41 »
I think these days to be a celebrity you need to have no qualifications but to have appeared on a reality TV programme.

I am aware that language progresses, but I also notice increasingly there are words that I've never heard of. Like in the title of this thread.

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« Reply #5 on: Yesterday at 15:32 »
On the subject of language progressing, I've just read this sentence on the BBC News website:

"It will also look at what learnings there might be for the future"

Learnings? LEARNINGS? I thought the word was "lessons". Grrrrrr.....

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« Reply #6 on: Yesterday at 17:50 »
Sandy W,  you are right !

These people had a very good and expensive education at a posh school but their ability is poor !  Then they will tell you that school ties don't really matter
 
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« Reply #7 on: Yesterday at 17:55 »
Quote from: Siely on Yesterday at 17:50
Sandy W,  you are right !

These people had a very good and expensive education at a posh school but their ability is poor !  Then they will tell you that school ties don't really matter

What people do you mean?
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« Reply #8 on: Yesterday at 18:17 »
Quote from: Sandy_W on Yesterday at 15:32
On the subject of language progressing, I've just read this sentence on the BBC News website:

"It will also look at what learnings there might be for the future"

Learnings? LEARNINGS? I thought the word was "lessons". Grrrrrr.....

According to the OED, the noun "learnings" was first recorded in 1483.

"Learning:
What is learnt or taught:

a. a lesson, instruction;
1483 Caxton G. de la Tour cxxxvii. M vij, — The thre enseygnementes or lernynges whiche Cathon gaf to his sone.
1611 Shaks. Cymb. i. i. 43 — The king..Puts to him all the Learnings that his time Could make him the receiuer of."
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