Perhaps it's time for employees at brokerage houses to recognize that idle chatter suggesting contempt for investors and the companies they analyze might be overlooked when economic conditions are heady, but when the economy turns sour, such language makes for an easy target for blame.
In response to this revival of pop Whorfianism, the linguist John H. McWhorter has written a short, sour, brilliant little book, "The Language Hoax" (Oxford), which attempts once again to explain to a general audience why the idea of linguistic relativism is empty.
One could measure how good it was by the sour faces and wounded-appearing body language of the Republicans.
As well as the practical damage Artworks seems to be doing, its horribly zeitgeisty marketing language and aesthetics leave a sour taste in the mouth.
The atmosphere in New York has been soured not just by Russian resistance to any language on military force but more importantly by the presentation on Monday of the UN inspectors' report on the 21 August chemical weapons attacks.
The essentially tonal harmonic language is enlivened with pungent chords and sour blasts.
By James Wood Kelman is a funny, sour, expansive writer whose vernacular experiments push and twist the language, sometimes to breaking points.
The rejection of the deal by Republican leaders, only hours after the language had been hammered out by their own negotiators, left a sour taste with the White House.
When Swede dreams turn sour Fox 2000, a part of 20th Century Fox, is bankrolling the development of an English-language remake of Patrik, Age 1.5.
It was obvious to me that things would get worse for women, because, culturally, the language used to talk about women and the images we see of women have become so sour and restrictive.
