There's not much fun to be gleaned from the current dire straits the globe is facing. But, for sport, I have lightened my mood by looking at how language has shifted ever closer to the precipice...
- Credit crunch: sounds like a yummy breakfast cereal, must be quite harmless
- Banking sector turmoil: that's fine, those fat cats can afford to shed a few pounds
- Financial crisis: crisis for who? This affects the city slickers but not me
- Economic crisis: say what? The problem is starting to affect us all? Yeah right!
- Recession: what a palaver, it's natural for an economy to go through peaks and troughs
- Global economic meltdown: Holy Macaroni, this sounds serious!
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