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Time of India
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Snobspeak doubletalk
A former associate editor with the Times of India, Jug Suraiya writes two regular columns for the print edition, Jugular Vein, which appears every Friday, and Second Opinion, which appears on Wednesdays. His blog takes a contrarian view of topical and timeless issues, political, social, economic and speculative. LESS ... MORE On arty-crafty terms replacing good old-fashioned words An Australian friend has sent me an article from a local newspaper which says that the Down Under continent is being 'uplifted'. Is the land of Oz levitating to the top of the world? Not quite. 'Uplifted' doesn't have anything to do with geology. Or with such gravity-defying, cosmetic surgery procedures like tummy tucks and double chin eliminations, but is the latest addition to the argot of the hospitality industry. If a hotel offers to change the standard room you booked for a superior room, you are being uplifted. What's wrong with an old-fashioned upgrade? Upgrade has been downgraded and replaced by the presumably more uplifting 'uplifted'. Want an extra dollop of cheese on your pizza? By all means. Get uplifted. Oral snobbery, or snobspeak, which is reinventing language seeks to poshify everyday vocabulary. In the mid-50s, British novelist Nancy Mitford distinguished between U and non-U language, in which U stood for upper class and non-U for non-upper. For example, U-speakers would say scent, whereas non-U speakers would say perfume; a U-speaker would use the loo, while a non-U speaker would go to the toilet. In today's snobspeak, a restaurant menu or an art gallery exhibition is invariably curated. This does not mean getting hold of a cleric called a curate to preside over the proceedings. Curated merely means 'put together', but put together is verbal vanilla, oral plain Jane, while curated sounds glam and arty-crafty. Like 'artisanal'. Artisanal should evoke the image of a workman, an artisan, sweat beading the brow, sleeves rolled up on brawny arms, wielding an implement of arcane use. But artisanal now refers to small-batch food items that aren't mass-produced, like ice cream, or cheese, or cupcakes, or 'hand-cut' sandwiches, as distinct, presumably, from 'foot-cut' sandwiches, with or without benefit of boots. 'Bespoke' is the artisanal word for custom-made, or made to order. Being more hoity, not to mention toity, bespoke is snobspeak for customised. But even as snobspeak invents new buzzwords for its lexicon, it runs the risk of being told to shove a bespoke uplifted into your artisanal. Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Disclaimer Views expressed above are the author's own.
Wall Street Journal
09-04-2025
- Automotive
- Wall Street Journal
South Korea Announces Emergency Support for Auto Sector Against U.S. Tariffs
South Korea's government has announced emergency-support measures for the country's auto sector, rushing to help ease the impact of U.S. President Trump's tariffs. The measures set forth by the trade ministry on Wednesday include more of financial support, tax breaks and subsidies for carmakers. The 25% tariff on cars and auto parts imported to the U.S. that Trump announced will cause 'significant' damage to South Korean automakers and parts manufacturers, the ministry said. To prevent a liquidity crunch in the auto sector, the ministry said Wednesday it would increase policy financing support, including cheaper loans, for automakers to 15 trillion won, equivalent to $10.09 billion, in 2025 from 13 trillion won currently. The government will also lower taxes on new car purchases to 3.5% from the current 5% temporarily until June, as well as raise subsidies for electric vehicles and extend the period of available subsidies by six months until the end of this year, it said. Separately, the government will help Korean automakers expand export markets into non-U. S. developing economies in Africa, Latin America and Asia, where demand for vehicles has been growing fast. South Korea's car exports to the U.S. stood at $34.7 billion in 2024, accounting for 49% of its total auto exports, according to the ministry. Write to Kwanwoo Jun at
Boston Globe
30-03-2025
- Automotive
- Boston Globe
Trump says he ‘couldn't care less' if auto prices rise because of his tariffs
Advertisement It was a remarkable, if politically perilous, statement from Trump amid ballooning costs on a wide range of goods. Voters' economic anxieties propelled Trump to the White House as critics complained his predecessor wasn't sensitive enough to the impact of persistent inflation on everyday Americans. On the campaign trail, Trump vowed that prices would begin to come down on the first day of his presidency, but they remain stubbornly high, with potentially more economic pain in coming days as more tariffs take effect. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up While economists have warned that tariffs amount to a tax on U.S. consumers and could tip the country into a recession, the president has held up the levies as a solution to decades of declines in auto manufacturing. More broadly, he has justified an escalating trade war on vehicles and other products by claiming other countries have taken advantage of the U.S. even as they benefit from their own protectionist policies. 'The world has been ripping off the United States for the last 40 years and more,' Trump said. 'And all we're doing is being fair, and frankly, I'm being very generous.' According to a fact sheet released by the White House on Wednesday, the tariffs 'will be applied to imported passenger vehicles (sedans, SUVs, crossovers, minivans, cargo vans) and light trucks, as well as key automobile parts (engines, transmissions, powertrain parts, and electrical components), with processes to expand tariffs on additional parts if necessary.' Vehicles that are subject to the free trade agreement with Mexico and Canada will be taxed only on the non-U. S. portion of their components. Advertisement Trump also has recently pushed senior advisers to go even bigger on tariff policy, The Washington Post reported. He has billed this coming Wednesday, which will mark a major escalation in his global trade war, as 'Liberation Day.' Trump's advisers are still debating the exact scope of the potential tariffs, which officials said could affect trillions of dollars' worth of trade. During the interview, Trump also said he would not fire anyone in connection with the Signal chat scandal. Trump has consistently said he stands by his national security adviser, Michael Waltz, who said he accidentally invited the editor in chief of the Atlantic magazine to a highly sensitive chat among senior administration officials on the messaging app Signal about a forthcoming U.S. military operation in Yemen. Trump and his White House have repeatedly said the controversy was a 'witch hunt' exaggerated by a media establishment seeking to blunt some of the early successes of his administration. 'I don't fire people because of fake news and because of witch hunts,' he said. Trump also declined to rule out using military force to annex Greenland, something he has said is key to U.S. national security. The idea has drawn criticism from members of Congress and America's allies. About two-thirds of Americans oppose adding Greenland to the United States, as well as 85 percent of Greenland's population, according to polling there. Advertisement Trump's remarks Saturday stand in contrast to comments Friday by Vice President JD Vance, who visited the semiautonomous Danish territory and downplayed the idea that the U.S. would use military force to seize the island. 'No, I never take military force off the table. But I think there's a good possibility that we could do it without military force,' Trump said. 'We have an obligation to protect the world. This is world peace, this is international security. And I have that obligation while I'm president. No, I don't take anything off the table.'
CBC
11-02-2025
- Business
- CBC
Minister says B.C. aluminum smelter confident it will find non-U.S. aluminum buyers
The operators of the B.C. Works aluminum smelter in the province's north are confident it will find non-U. S. markets for its product, the minister co-ordinating British Columbia's response to tariff threats from the United States said Monday. Ravi Kahlon said that B.C. Premier David Eby had recently met with Rio Tinto, and the company had a "good level of confidence" that fresh markets would be found in a "fairly quick way" for aluminum produced at the Kitimat facility. The government has been working with Rio Tinto and others to figure out how to move B.C. products to other jurisdictions since the moment tariffs were suggested by U.S. President Donald Trump, Kahlon said. Though U.S. tariffs will have an impact "in the short term," the province is comfortable new buyers will be found, with aluminum particularly in demand, he said. "There is a demand in the world for this. And in particular, from British Columbia. We do produce some of the lowest-carbon products in the world, and there's still a demand for that," Kahlon said. Rio Tinto's aluminum smelter and hydropower facility in Kitimat was one of the largest contributors to B.C.'s manufacturing GDP in 2023, according to its website, providing over $517 million to the economy with aluminum output of 377,000 tonnes that year. Taylor Bachrach, the local NDP MP for Skeena—Bulkley Valley, says the Kitimat facility is responsible for around 1,500 jobs in the local area, and the tariffs would have a devastating impact. "It's a time when we need to stand united in the face of these threats," he told CBC News. "This is, really, a threat to our economy, and the president seems hellbent on inflicting maximum damage. And that's incredibly disappointing given the long relationship we've had with the United States." Premier heading to Washington Eby was on his way to the U.S. on Monday night for a joint mission to Washington with fellow premiers to meet with Republican lawmakers and attempt to sway the president away from tariffs. The premier spoke to reporters on Monday before leaving, saying he would emphasize the importance of working together with key decision-makers on his trip. "This trip is about sending the message that it's not just Canadian families we're standing up for here; it's American families as well," he said. "These tariffs, even just the tariffs announced today, are going to increase the cost of so many things for Americans, everything from cars to airplanes." Kahlon spoke to reporters just before Trump signed an executive order to impose 25 per cent tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports, including Canadian products. The premier added that the tariffs were Americans "taxing themselves" for critical minerals that were in demand in the U.S. The new duties came a week after Trump temporarily paused plans to hit Canada and Mexico with sweeping 25 per cent tariffs on goods and a lower 10 per cent levy on Canadian energy. WATCH | How Canada's steel industry fared during previous tariffs: How did Canada's steel industry fare the first time Donald Trump imposed tariffs in 2018? 6 hours ago Duration 1:43 During his first term, U.S. President Donald Trump imposed similar tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, of 25 per cent and 10 per cent, respectively. Guio Jacinto, the lead tariff researcher at the United Steelworkers Union, says more than 800 steelworkers were laid off while production and exports declined. He tells BC Today guest host Amy Bell that the tariffs would have a broader impact and could affect multiple products this time. Kahlon added that interprovincial trade is "critically important" for many goods. "We've been trying for years, from British Columbia, actually leading conversations, to have some of those barriers be removed, and only now are we seeing some real progress and some meaningful conversations with all partners across the country," Kahlon said. "So I'm very hopeful that now we've got the political will from other provinces to see some of these things across the line, and that's something the premier has been needing with the other premiers across the country." Margareta Dovgal, the managing director of non-profit resource advocacy organization Resource Works, said that there was a need to retaliate to the U.S. tariffs but said that any retaliatory tariffs should be planned carefully to not unduly impact B.C. producers. "There's a risk if we go too far on it, it might put some businesses under," she said. "We saw in response to [Trump's] news in November that a number of B.C. manufacturers had signalled hiring freezes."
Yahoo
29-01-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Britt, Strong join President Trump as he signs Laken Riley Act into law
WASHINGTON (WHNT) — Representative Dale Strong and Senator Katie Britt joined President Donald Trump as he signed the Laken Riley Act into law on Wednesday. The Laken Riley Act is the 49th Presidential administration's first piece of legislation in his new term. The legislation is named for Laken Riley, a 22-year-old Georgia nursing student who went out for a run in February 2024 and was killed by Jose Antonio Ibarra, a Venezuelan national in the U.S. illegally. Ibarra was found guilty in November and sentenced to life without parole. On Jan. 7, Britt introduced the bill to the 119th Congress. On the requires U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to 'detain an individual who is unlawfully present in the United States or did not possess the necessary documents when applying for admission; and has been charged with, arrested for, convicted for, or admits to having committed acts that constitute the essential elements of burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting.' 'The bill also authorizes state governments to sue for injunctive relief over certain immigration-related decisions or alleged failures by the federal government if the decision or failure caused the state or its residents harm, including financial harm of more than $100. Specifically, the state government may sue the federal government over a: decision to release a non-U. S. national from custody; failure to fulfill requirements relating to inspecting individuals seeking admission into the United States, including requirements related to asylum interviews; failure to fulfill a requirement to stop issuing visas to nationals of a country that unreasonably denies or delays acceptance of nationals of that country; violation of limitations on immigration parole, such as the requirement that parole be granted only on a case-by-case basis; or failure to detain an individual who has been ordered removed from the United States.' After the House passed the bill, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said it was 'the right thing to do.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
