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[platinumsage]

You can’t define words based on whether you’re personally able to easily go on foreign holidays.

 

[Orang Utan]

No, staying at home isn’t any kind of cation, it’s simply staying at home.

However if you want to use the word that way, fine. Just don’t be upset if people misinterpret you because they take staycation to mean staying in the UK rather than going abroad.

Check your privilege lol.

 

[Orang Utan]

No, staying at home isn’t any kind of cation, it’s simply staying at home.

However if you want to use the word that way, fine. Just don’t be upset if people misinterpret you because they take staycation to mean staying in the UK rather than going abroad.

No, it’s still holidays as we all get annual leave, just not everyone can afford to go on a holiday somewhere else, so they stay at home.

 

[platinumsage]

Check your privilege lol.

I’m a lexical liberalist, not a lexical conservative like some on here.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I’m a lexical liberalist, not a lexical conservative like some on here.

Lexical fascism seems rather popular round here too...

 

[platinumsage]

No, it’s still holidays as we all get annual leave, just not everyone can afford to go on a holiday somewhere else, so they stay at home.

There’s a difference between a holiday and annual leave, unless you think taking annual leave to go to a funeral or wait in for a delivery constitutes going on holiday.

Staycation came about to describe a certain subset of “going on holiday”, and staying at home isn’t going on holiday.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

Yeah I grew up in a comparable place in North Devon and it was pretty dull for kids. But for now I need to be somewhere I can commute to Exeter from and it seems nowhere in Exeter itself will let us rent a house with a dog

Had to to read twice. First time was 'Houses that come with dogs?'

 

[kebabking]

I’m a lexical liberalist, not a lexical conservative like some on here.

Funny way of spelling 'talks shit'...

Your definition makes no sense, practically or linguistically.

 

[platinumsage]

Lexical fascism seems rather popular round here too...

Im pretty sure Hitler would have sought to define this new word in such restrictive terms based on work-related legal entitlements as opposed definitions based on leaving the country.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Both the Oxford & Cambridge dictionaries define staycation as - a holiday that you spend at or near your home [so, that could be your own country]

The Collins dictionary goes further with - a holiday that you spend in your own home or your own country.

Common usage defines it as a holiday in your own country.

@ the wrong'uns.

 

[Orang Utan]

staying at home isn’t going on holiday.

it's staying on holiday.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Im pretty sure Hitler would have sought to define this new word in such restrictive terms based on work-related legal entitlements as opposed definitions based on leaving the country.

Mussolini would have been more sanguine though. #notallfascists

 

[Orang Utan]

Maybe if you're used to going on foreign holidays then you might call going camping in Cornwall a staycation, and journalists tend to be privileged middle-class folk, so the term has been adapted to reflect their narrow view of what people do for their holidays.

 

[Poot]

I knew that a thread about holidays would really end up being about Hitler.

Ftr I view Totnes with deep suspicion since they get off on naked yoga but vote Tory. Got to be full of wrong 'uns, that. And anyway it isn't near the sea.

I like Bigbury and Falmouth and Exmouth and have a soft spot for Bovisand (largely because I can walk to it from here). Bude seems okay. Paignton used to be just the right amount of shopsoiled but it's gone a bit far now.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Staycation is in fact the name of the UK’s premier free festival...

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[Bahnhof Strasse]

I knew that a thread about holidays would really end up being about Hitler.

Ftr I view Totnes with deep suspicion since they get off on naked yoga but vote Tory. Got to be full of wrong 'uns, that. And anyway it isn't near the sea.

I like Bigbury and Falmouth and Exmouth and have a soft spot for Bovisand (largely because I can walk to it from here). Bude seems okay. Paignton used to be just the right amount of shopsoiled but it's gone a bit far now.

Bigbury is spoiled by the Pilchard Inn, one of the most perfect looking pubs on earth, but one which shares a trait common with many a perfect looking pub, it’s fucking crap.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Maybe if you're used to going on foreign holidays then you might call going camping in Cornwall a staycation, and journalists tend to be privileged middle-class folk, so the term has been adapted to reflect their narrow view of what people do for their holidays.

You can get a return flight to Spain for about £25 with Ryan Air & go camping, foreign holidays are not just for the privileged, you plum.

 

[Orang Utan]

You can get a return flight to Spain for about £25 with Ryan Air & go camping, foreign holidays are not just for the privileged, you plum.

Not everyone can afford to go away on holiday full stop. Again, check your privilege

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Not everyone can afford to go away on holiday full stop. Again, check your privilege

Didn’t you go lording it up in India in the not too distant past?

 

[brogdale]

You can get a return flight to Spain for about £25 with Ryan Air & go camping, foreign holidays are not just for the privileged, you plum.

Harsh.
There are always lots of other costs associated with a 'cheap' holiday, aren't there? Things like transport to & fro airports, insurance, tents & camping equipment, pitch fees etc. - I'm sure there are more). If you're really hard up, those things would just look insurmountable. Not forgetting the issue of actually booking off time at the right moment to catch the 'cheap' flights etc.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Not everyone can afford to go away on holiday full stop. Again, check your privilege

The three main dictionaries prove your definition is wrong, are you seriously going to keep digging?

 

[platinumsage]

Not everyone can afford to go away on holiday full stop. Again, check your privilege

Not everyone earns enough to pay income tax. That doesn’t mean it will be beneficial to any subset of the working class to sequester the term “tax avoidance” to mean those who avoid paying by not earning enough, rather than those who avoid paying by being devious tax cheats.

 

[alsoknownas]

Didn’t you go lording it up in India in the not too distant past?

To be fair to Orang Utan his account of his India trip didn't seem to venture too far into 'lording it up' territory .

 

[Orang Utan]

Didn’t you go lording it up in India in the not too distant past?

I went to India in 2011.

 

[wtfftw]

Not everyone earns enough to pay income tax. That doesn’t mean it will be beneficial to any subset of the working class to sequester the term “tax avoidance” to mean those who avoid paying by not earning enough, rather than those who avoid paying by being devious tax cheats.

But if people did start using "tax avoidance"to mean that - and so much so that dictionaries have decided that's the correct definition I still wouldn't.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I went to India in 2011.

Moneybags

 

[Orang Utan]

Moneybags

I was then yes as I had a redundancy payout

 

[planetgeli]

Who'd have thought things would go all nonsensical when you let Americans start making up English eh?

Staycation makes no sense because it's a portmanteau word that drops the va of vacation for stay - because it rhymes.

But the root of vacation is Latin, vacare, a whole word (not va + care) which means to be unoccupied, free of service. You can see how that definition has been extended to holiday, but dropping the va for stay for rhyming purposes, like a child might do thinking they're clever, is just meaningless. Cation does not mean anything in this sense.

 

[kebabking]

You can get a return flight to Spain for about £25 with Ryan Air & go camping, foreign holidays are not just for the privileged, you plum.

How much are passports for a family of five?

How much is travel insurance that would cover income protection if you have to quarantine on your return and your employer won't give you paid leave and you can't work from home?

Taxi's or hotels to get to airports at 6am for those cheap flights?

They may be 'cheap' if you're on a level where splashing out £500 every decade is no problem, and you have a car, and your job allows you to work from home - but doesn't make them cheap if you don't have those things, which is a very large number of people....

 

[Dogsauce]

Staycation came about to describe a certain subset of “going on holiday”, and staying at home isn’t going on holiday.

I think when I first heard the term years back it was being used to describe having a holiday based from home, so having the week off but going out on day trips and stuff like that, basically staying in your own home but doing holiday things.

Not particularly bothered about the name changing, but as someone who didn’t go abroad for a holiday until their 30s it does come across a bit snobby/privileged to discount holidaying in the UK as something lesser or not adequate. It does for a lot of people.