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Until now, politicians have been talking about the gig economy using outdated language.
More than a few said they were irritated by what they called outdated language ("having it all") and a clichéd cover illustration (Baby, check. Briefcase, check).
Quips about reportedly outdated language like "career woman" and "having it all" aside, my female friends and I have all had this conversation with each other.
They have that always-being-true effect that makes them difficult to locate temporally, even as we associate them with outdated language and outdated characters.
While courts have sometimes managed to shoehorn contemporary displacement into outdated language, the result is arbitrary exclusions and erratic responses: in 2014 recognition rates for Eritrean asylum seekers ranged from 26% in France to 100% in Sweden.
Balk away, say I. New Globe director Emma Rice raised horror'd eyebrows when she said recently that some of Shakespeare's more outdated language left her cold and longing to turn on The Archers.
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The most dangerous notion that I have ever heard is that there is some form of linguistic progress going on here, that people chose to stop speaking outdated languages.
Britain's leading nostalgia television channel has become embroiled in a dispute with the media regulator, however, over the rules surrounding outdated racist language.
Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J) introduced a bill in the House last week closing the loophole on autodialers who today take advantage of outdated legal language.
"The Voyager flight team dug up decades-old data and examined the software that was coded in an outdated assembler language, to make sure we could safely test the thrusters," said JPL's Chris Jones, who led the effort, in a JPL news release.
Comedian Hasan Minhaj had first addressed the outdated, offensive language on his Netflix show "Patriot Act". "I noticed that my dad, when he'd see either microaggressions or full-on aggression happening in America, he sort of considers that the cost of entry". "Did you just 'Queer Eye' me?" the comedian asks as France helps him pick out clothes.
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