Talk:in terms of
Latest comment: 4 years ago by Equinox in topic Missing sense? and questioning the claimed mathematical origin
I found this one quite hard. Anyway, I did my best. Do improve as you see fit. ---> Tooironic 08:05, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
Disgusting
[edit]The sentences
I switched to a different bank for better customer service, but there was little difference in terms of interest rates. She has no idea how she wants the house to look in terms of décor.
constitute some of the most disgusting abuse of the English language that I have ever seen. Can we please not encourage this horrible use of the phrase 'in terms of' - it's so sloppy and horrible. J.Gowers (talk) 14:44, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
- I fail to see what is disgusting about them. Those sentences seem perfectly fine to me. Honestly, I'm curious about why you find this term disgusting and what you would use instead. Is with regard to just as bad? Even supposing that you are right, this dictionary is descriptive, not prescriptive, so it doesn't evaluate words in terms of how disgusting they may be. At most, if the term is not UK English, there may be a note to that effect. --Haplology (talk) 15:04, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
Missing sense? and questioning the claimed mathematical origin
[edit]Chambers 1908 gives "in the language peculiar to anything", suggesting that the original "terms" were words and phrases, not mathematical variables. Equinox ◑ 17:17, 1 September 2019 (UTC)