like Djokovich and Nadal turn the
tennis
court
into
an
arena
reminiscent of the glory days of
Caligula and his gladiators. They
fight until ‘death do us part’. “Love”
is soon forgotten. Going for the
jugular becomes the call of the day.
It is irritating to see that people use
the term for less than noble
purposes. For instance, I don’t like
the word ‘Zero tolerance’. ‘No tolerance’ would have been
sufficient. ‘Absolutely no tolerance’ has even more potency. It is
hilarious that some sour grammarian, probably suffering from
dyspepsia, coined the term ‘Zero article’ to refer to the absence
of a definite article (a, an, the) before a noun.
And
the
ultimate
obscenity?
Zero
balancing! I could
have accepted it, with
reluctance, if it had
anything to do with
accounting. No. It
is “a manual therapy
in
which
the
practitioner
applies
finger
pressure
or traction to tense
tissue to enable relaxation and reorganization. It has been
described as “a bodyworkmodality that claims to balance energy
and structure within the body”.Really??!!
In an article for Quack watch, entitled “Questionable
Organizations: An Overview”, Stephen Barrett lists Zero Balancing
Association as an organization which he views with “considerable
distrust”.
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