Issues!!!!

[MALCOLM H]

The Way The Word 'issue' Is Being Overused To The Point Of Being Battered To Death (often In Completely The Wrong Context), Is Driving Me Up The Wall. Most Times It Is Being Used To Replace The Word 'problem', Which To My Belief Is Grammatically Incorrect. On Ebay Recently, I Saw A Car Advertised As 'having No Issues'. What In God's Name Is This Rubbish Supposed To Mean? Do These Idiotic Buzzwords Annoy Anybody Else, Or Am I Alone And Therefore Wrong?

[Peter Goodey]

I don't have an issue with it.

[Ladkyis]

I went to Barclays Bank here in Newport yesterday during opening hours and it was shut. The staff were outside explaining to surprised customers that "There are issues inside the bank". They have had work done in the bank and so I asked if it was Builders and they said YES. so now we know that issues means builders. Does anyone know a good firm of issues that could rebuild my garden wall?


Ann

[peter nicholl]

Or Am I Alone And Therefore Wrong?

To join issue with you Malcolm, being alone does not in itself make you wrong. Perhaps a more apt description might be "A prophet without honour in his own land"
Peter

[Pam Downes]

I don't have an issue with it.

He wrote, with very clenched teeth.
Sorry Peter, but I think this is you to a T at the moment -
Meanwhile I'm ROFLOL.
Pam

[Blain]

The Way The Word 'issue' Is Being Overused To The Point Of Being Battered To Death (often In Completely The Wrong Context), Is Driving Me Up The Wall. Most Times It Is Being Used To Replace The Word 'problem', Which To My Belief Is Grammatically Incorrect. On Ebay Recently, I Saw A Car Advertised As 'having No Issues'. What In God's Name Is This Rubbish Supposed To Mean? Do These Idiotic Buzzwords Annoy Anybody Else, Or Am I Alone And Therefore Wrong?

I agree that there is an issue with the word issue being over used, but I have to admit that I have an issue with your use of title case, would you like to issue forth a reason for using it?

[Rod Neep]

In this context, therefore, I wonder what a "re-issue" might mean?


Rod

[Lindad]

I agree that there is an issue with the word issue being over used, but I have to admit that I have an issue with your use of title case, would you like to issue forth a reason for using it?

Oh, I agree! That particular issue certainly wound me up!!

[Blain]

I went to Barclays Bank here in Newport yesterday during opening hours and it was shut. The staff were outside explaining to surprised customers that "There are issues inside the bank".

Ann

This sparked my interest, so I had a quick trip over to dictionary.com to look in to the issue.

I have narrowed it down to the following


A distinct set of copies of an edition of a book distinguished from others of that edition by variations in the printed matter.

offspring; progeny.

A personal problem or emotional disorder: The teacher discussed the child's issues with his parents.

A place of egress; an outlet: a lake with no issue to the sea.

A discharge, as of blood or pus. A lesion, wound, or ulcer producing such a discharge.


So, the bank was full of children, reading magazines, with emotional problems, bleeding from wounds while sat near the mouth of a river.

[peter nicholl]

So far nobody has mentioned the "Romantic" use of the word, as in the song "Issue is, or Issue ain't my Baby?"