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Cúig Fhrása (Béarla) Gan Mhaith (De Réir Fhionntán Uí Thuathail aka Fintan O’Toole) (Cuid 1/4) Posted by on Jan 4, 2012

(le Róislín) Noted journalist Fintan O’Toole recently published his list of five phrases that he thinks should be outlawed in 2012 (http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2012/0103/1224309734610_pf.html).  Not that words are typically actually outlawed as such, but he feels these five phrases “distort or conceal” reality and are misleading.  For example, we constantly discuss “austerity,” but meanwhile certain individuals are…

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