Why is 'faux' so popular? If we use this word, does whatever

[Obamanaut]

we are referring to as 'faux' become more phony, fake, untrue, less likely? Example 'faux outrage.'

[DarkTirade]

1. That's a rather silly question.

Does referring to the sky as blue make it any more so? It's just a descriptor.

[Obamanaut]

2. I don't think it was silly at all. How many times, when reading,

have you come upon a foreign word or phrase, and the author would put the translation in parens for the reader?

Is the author doing this to show that he/she knows phrases in other languages and we the readers are too uneducated to know the same? If the author thinks that poorly of us, why not use all English?

[DarkTirade]

4. It's a word that's become common.

Plenty of foreign words become common. I'm still not seeing what the big deal is.

[Obamanaut]

6. There were so many serious threads in this section, thought I'd

lighten it up a bit. :eyes:

[DarkTirade]

7. Some of us take our etymology more seriously than others.

And don't think you can out-smilie me! I challenge you to a duel!

sword

saber or

quarterstaff?

(Actually it's a buck and a quarter quarterstaff, but I ain't tellin' him that.)

[Obamanaut]

8. I yield! nt

[DarkTirade]

9. En guarde!

Touche! :P

[Anarcho-Socialist]

3. enough of your pseudo-outrage, you quasi-crypto-communist

:)

[Faygo Kid]

5. Faux News Channel

Describes it perfectly.

[CJCRANE]

10. I prefer the freeperism "fo"

as in "fopah".

;)