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Re:Verlan: French slang that inverses words by dorfsmay on Sunday February 02, 2020 @12:50PM (#22218186)
> English for instance would never ever do something like that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irregardless

Or one that absolutely drives me nuts:

"A great rate of speed"

Which is a journalist way to say "I failed high school physics, but I'm still going to try to sound smart".

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Re:Verlan: French slang that inverses words by loeg on Sunday February 02, 2020 @02:46PM (#22218948)
Or exonerative tense:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/past_exonerative

In which journalists use the passive voice to excuse, e.g., police shootings. "The victim was shot and killed in an officer-involved shooting." Rather than: "the officer shot and killed the victim."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/07/14/...

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/washington/14mistakes.htm...

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Re:Verlan: French slang that inverses words by ben509 on Sunday February 02, 2020 @02:17PM (#22218728)
My favorite is still "laxadaisical" for those situations when neither "lax" nor "lackadaisical" are enough.
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