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The misuse of the word "traditional" isn't limited to the beer world. Elsewhere it's also used with the very vague meaning of "sometime in the last few hundred years".
I was shocked to hear it used in this particular context: a BBC TV report about replacing the street lights in Sheffield (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20308297). The reporter said that LED lights were going to replace the traditional orange street lights.
Traditional? Street lights can be traditional? Wouldn't a traditional street light be a gas one?
It's probably my age that makes me baulk at this usage. Because I can remember those sodium lamps appearing. I can even remember the very first time I encountered them. It was in Sunderland, probably about 1968 or 1969. They were introduced even later than that in Newark. Not much more than 40 years ago.
Here's a phiosophical question. How long does a practice or an object have to have been around before it becomes traditional?
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The misuse of the word "traditional" isn't limited to the beer world. Elsewhere it's also used with the very vague meaning of "sometime in the last few hundred years".
I was shocked to hear it used in this particular context: a BBC TV report about replacing the street lights in Sheffield (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20308297). The reporter said that LED lights were going to replace the traditional orange street lights.
Traditional? Street lights can be traditional? Wouldn't a traditional street light be a gas one?
It's probably my age that makes me baulk at this usage. Because I can remember those sodium lamps appearing. I can even remember the very first time I encountered them. It was in Sunderland, probably about 1968 or 1969. They were introduced even later than that in Newark. Not much more than 40 years ago.
Here's a phiosophical question. How long does a practice or an object have to have been around before it becomes traditional?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20308297https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5445569787371915337-6438809900158696271?l=barclayperkins.blogspot.com
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