Comments on: Credit crunching language http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/financial/credit-crunching-language/ Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:15:37 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: belfegore http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/financial/credit-crunching-language/comment-page-1/#comment-6 belfegore Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:24:33 +0000 http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/?p=5#comment-6 'credit crunch' is another cute-sy sounding term for something rather horrid, just like frost bite... somebody got cold feet and now everybody needs their legs amputated. Of course 'credit crunch' should actually be called 'smelly dealers got stinking rich on old cabbage and now everyone has to pay for it'. So instead we get the credit crunch and how some poor bankers got bitten by it, so, for once, the only solution is throwing money at the problem, a method that is frowned upon for anything else... ‘credit crunch’ is another cute-sy sounding term for something rather horrid, just like frost bite… somebody got cold feet and now everybody needs their legs amputated.

Of course ‘credit crunch’ should actually be called ’smelly dealers got stinking rich on old cabbage and now everyone has to pay for it’.

So instead we get the credit crunch and how some poor bankers got bitten by it, so, for once, the only solution is throwing money at the problem, a method that is frowned upon for anything else…

]]> By: Andrew Georgiou http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/financial/credit-crunching-language/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Andrew Georgiou Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:33:56 +0000 http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/?p=5#comment-3 I like it - although I think you could follow your own advice in your writing... "The internet is the perfect place for this – a virtual sewer for all the effluent that spews out of the human mind." - surely you mean "people talking shit"! I like it – although I think you could follow your own advice in your writing…
“The internet is the perfect place for this – a virtual sewer for all the effluent that spews out of the human mind.” – surely you mean “people talking shit”!

]]> By: Folzter http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/financial/credit-crunching-language/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Folzter Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:50:10 +0000 http://thedanglingmodifier.co.uk/?p=5#comment-2 Yeah and why is it that the credit is 'crunched'? Why not credit 'munch', or credit 'nibble', or bluntly credit crisis? I guess 'crunch' is more alliterative (is that word?) and has all the connotations of pain and grinding to a small pieces. But what is happening is more like a slow painful roll into financial chaos, than a snappy yappy bite of the financial sector. People seem to love the crunch phase. I would love to know who first used it.... Yeah and why is it that the credit is ‘crunched’? Why not credit ‘munch’, or credit ‘nibble’, or bluntly credit crisis? I guess ‘crunch’ is more alliterative (is that word?) and has all the connotations of pain and grinding to a small pieces. But what is happening is more like a slow painful roll into financial chaos, than a snappy yappy bite of the financial sector. People seem to love the crunch phase. I would love to know who first used it….

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