Language: "Disrupted" as a redneck?

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alternative for saying "disturbed", as when KFC told the three year old girl on her way home from the hospital, after a vicious Pit Bull attack (the girl had asked her grandmother to stop for mashed potatoes) that she had to leave because her scars were "disrupting" their customers? Like the redneck use of "individuals" to describe persons, it seems to me that it may derive from the characteristic experience of being institutionalised in the Punitive System and being called "individuals" by policemen, and from similarly being institutionalised and being told that they are "disrupting" because they are used to being addressed as a GROUP? So, my question: Is this a proper use of the language?

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

"Disrupting the customers" is wrong, in my British English. I would say "upsetting the customers", or "disturbing the cuistomers".

"Disrupting" means "stopping (or severely restricting) something from happening". Electrical supplies can be disrupted by thunderstorms.  Bad weather can disrupt ferry timetables.

"Disrupt"cannot really be applied directly to people as KFC seems to use it in your quotation. In that instance you are correct.

? · Answer

First, KFC "allegedly" told the girl to leave.  Nothing is proven.
And why are you speaking of "rednecks"?
If this incident happened, the individuals should be fired.

? · Answer

KENTUCKY fried chicken?  The "proper" ethnic slur for Kentuckians isn't rednecks. It is "Briars." That's short for briarhopper.  It took place in Mississippi, so maybe for those who go in for ethnic slurs, "rednecks" is OK.

http://www.amazon.com/Briarhopper-History-Mary-Lynn-Archibald/dp/0978705416

I just read this story in German on the Der spiegel site. They had a picture of the little girl. I thinks she looks precious. The eye patch is very well done.

http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/gesellschaft/dreijaehrige-nach-hundeattacke-wegen-verletzungen-aus-kfc-verwiesen-a-975412.html

Der Speigel used the word, verstöre, which is closer to destroy. That seems excessive.

Karen · Answer

as the answer  the word be disrupting, as an individual you  could be  .disruptive, as a pod or group would be disrupting..

d · Answer

Why would it not be proper?............ individual is to distinguish from a larger crowd. Very proper. Your theory is laughable, but good try, ha ha.

Language: "Disrupted" as a redneck?

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