The phrase has always been “Back in the old days,” which was the phrase used (1) in the 70s, when I was alive and cognizent, and (2) the only such phrase that makes sense and was not the product of the ghetto. This phrase in S2.9 of The Deuce is the first cultural faux pas that I’ve heard in this series.
Illiteracy and stupidity: fight them ferociously.
lol you are right...
off topic, but who killed Ashley? I mustve missed that part or waited too long to see the next episode..or I have Altzeimers.. but do tell...
The pimps killed her. Even her colleagues warned her that she was being too pushy and indiscrete in proselytizing to the working girls out on the street and in front of their pimps, and that it was dangerous. They were right.
shareThanks for the reply... Did they show which pimp killed her? I guess I have to watch second to last episode again. I truly dont recall. I dont think CC did it. I actually felt bad that he was killed. I dont know why. But did you see how when his girl(the blonde actress) found out in the diner? She really cried, and then she felt relief. She did a good job in her character part.
shareYes, I think the acting on the series ranges from very good to excellent.
I recall it was several pimps who joined in on the murder. It was gruesome.
But we didn't see the murder. We just saw the pimps planning it. And then in the last episode, we saw them find the body.
Oddly, CC (whom I hate) refused to kill her. He said that she was a "civilian" and her death would be noticed and investigated in way that wouldn't happen if she were one of the prostitutes.
Good catch! There are a number of things I see in films and movies that are very anachronistic. I was explaining this to my niece. For instance, before the 1990's no one ever said "Thank you for your service" to military personnel. Or I was watching Downton Abbey once and the Maggie Smith character said something about "parenting a child." No one ever used "to parent" back then. Gender neutral terms didn't become common until around the 1970's.
shareYou just became one of my favorite people, Jennie. I am passionate about language because it is the code by which we communicate, and because grammar is a rudimentary system of logic. That is particularly true online, where we are blind to body language and vocal inflection! What would happen to the world if computer programmers were sloppy, lazy, or both? Bad things would (and do) happen. “Parent” is a noun, not a verb. “A parent” is what one IS, not what one DOES. What one does is “to be a parent.” To be a parent is the most important responsibility in human existence. No other responsibility even comes close to it; it is therefore a very scary idea. Turning the word “parent” into a verb gives the speaker emotional distance from that responsibility, and, in a very real way, gives him or her behavioral distance from that responsibility as well. I reject this abandonment of responsibility as being cowardly, just as I reject all facile misuse of language. To drive home my point about “parent”: the most powerful line in one of my favorite films, The Crow, is this: “MOTHER is the name for GOD on the lips and hearts of every child.”
shareThanks very much. I spend a great deal of time on grammatical issues. One of my all-time pet peeves is the (mis)use of the word "impact." It's like nails scratching on a chalk board. It's only a matter of time before "irregardless" becomes an official word.
Remember William Safire? He had a great column in the New York Times Sunday Magazine that was called "On Language." I can't tell you how often I think of him when i write.
One Christmas, my father gave me a copy of Safire’s book of the same name, a collection of his columns. I remember that he wrote, “Downplay? I would upget and outwalk!” I don’t care how often the wrong word is spoken (e.g, “nucular”), it is still the wrong word. Error can’t be transmuted to fact by consensus acclaim. That’s like determining the gender of an animal by taking a vote instead of actually examining the creature.
shareYes, but language evolves and we can see the results of this over a relatively short time periods. https://youtu.be/zUrDUxh5xS0
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