Since when was "Precarity" a word, anyway?

Okay, I went to the last one of these at the Head of Steam in Euston and no-one was there.

However, I know some of the people organising this one and they have talked about it with other people.

So it should be going ahead, but the people organising need to get their act in gear so that people aren't left at the wrong pub this time.

BTW there's no legal obligation to inform the owner of the pub that you are going to meet and talk about politics, so maybe he doesn't know.

But it would be nice if one of the organisers of this would confirm for everyon that this is definitley happening. Thanks.

Since when...?

Since people realised there was a need for such a word, that's when!

Where do new words come from? People make them up! (duh!)

So would you prefer "precariousness" then, does that sound more elegant? (does it fuck!)

As an anarchist, I see no need to submit myself to anyone else's authority, not the government, not the coroporations, and certainly not a bunch of dictionary writers who think they have the right to determine which words should be officially sanctioned as official words of the queen's english.

If you're interested, the origin of the word precarity is from the French precarite (with an accute accent on the e's). It's a common word in French but it's quite new in English, mainly just by people who are rebelling against the precariousness of life under neo-liberal capitalism.

Anyway, just to say, it really fucks me off when people try to correct eachother's english as if that makes them clever or something. Anyone who claims that they're own version of the language is correct and that "non-standard" things that other people say, is not only arrogant, but they're wasting their time. Language constantly evolves... linguistic conversatives complain about new words and new uses of old words and new pronunciations of old words and new uses of grammar, without realising that their parent's and grandparents generation was complaining in exactly the same way about items they now take for granted. And people have been doing this ever since human-kind learnt to speak. If people in the 18th century had had their way, we'd all still be saying "thee" and "thou" all the time.

Language changes - get used to it, punk.

Forsooth it is thus spaken verily!Casual proles are in precarity!

While I agree that language constantly evolves I have hated the word Precarity since I first heard it used - Being Precarious is not a new phenomenon and we shouldn't be trying to brand it as such.

Language evolves when it comes into common useage - but Precarity is a word being used by an elite few in england, I conceed it might be different in France, but the MOST IMPORTANT use of language is for communication. The problem with the word Precarity is that most people haven't heard of it and don't understand it when they do - so you are cutting yourselves off from the people you are trying to reach out to. Who are you trying to attract with your 'buzz' words? Not workers that's for sure!