[General] Do you say "upping country"?

[Kengo]

Hello people,

Is it natural or even acceptable to say "upping country" instead of "developing country"?
I assume "developing country" is the most common term but it would be good to know if it could serve as a synonym.

Thanks in advance

 

[5jj]

Is it natural or even acceptable to say "upping country" instead of "developing country"?

No

 

[Kengo]

Thanks.

 

[Tdol]

I have never heard it used. Emerging country/market is sometimes used for countries that are progressing and are no longer developing countries. This is sometimes sub-divided into advanced emerging and secondary emerging according to the degree of progress achieved.

 

[Kengo]

Hi Tdol

I've heard "emerging country" but never knew the difference from "developing country".
Great answer as always.

Thanks a lot.:up:

 

[konungursvia]

Hi Tdol

I've heard "emerging country" but never knew the difference from "developing country".
Great answer as always.

Thanks a lot.:up:

I didn't know they were the same thing either, but had assumed emerging was just the new euphemism. I've learnt something today.

Funny how they are as ephemoral as they are oblique. The more indirect, the faster they sound nasty:

crippled > handicapped > disabled > challenged
retarded > mentally disabled > mentally challenged > at risk
third world > developing > emerging

Not that I would suggest moving backwards.

 

[5jj]

Not that I would suggest moving backwards.

Are we allowed to use that word these days? ;-)


psst. typo -ephemeral

 

[Kengo]

Funny how they are as ephemoral as they are oblique. The more indirect, the faster they sound nasty:

crippled > handicapped > disabled > challenged
retarded > mentally disabled > mentally challenged > at risk
third world > developing > emerging

Maybe "upping country" is to appear next to emerging...?

Thank you for the list though. Some new words to me.

 

[BobK]

No

:up: The only idiomatic context I can think of for the word 'upping' is the collocation 'upping the ante' (an abbreviation of 'upping [i.e. raising] the ante-post stakes [i.e. the odds available before the day of a race]'); this is a fairly close synonym (except for the 'ante-post' bit) of the more common 'raising the stakes'.. (The sense 'raising' si sometimes used informally, often with reference to a small adjustment: 'I suggest upping the dose by 5 mg'.

b

 

[Kengo]

:up: The only idiomatic context I can think of for the word 'upping' is the collocation 'upping the ante' (an abbreviation of 'upping [i.e. raising] the ante-post stakes [i.e. the odds available before the day of a race]'); this is a fairly close synonym (except for the 'ante-post' bit) of the more common 'raising the stakes'.. (The sense 'raising' si sometimes used informally, often with reference to a small adjustment: 'I suggest upping the dose by 5 mg'.

b

Thanks BobK. I understood this example clearly.

 

[Hedwig]

I didn't know they were the same thing either, but had assumed emerging was just the new euphemism. I've learnt something today.

Funny how they are as ephemoral as they are oblique. The more indirect, the faster they sound nasty:

crippled > handicapped > disabled > challenged
retarded > mentally disabled > mentally challenged > at risk
third world > developing > emerging

Not that I would suggest moving backwards.

I, too, thought emerging was the latest euphemism. When I was a girl ya only had developed and underdeveloped.

Noe, my question is, how would you use at risk in a sentence? (from the retarded/mentally disabled string.) I mean, I can see how to use it predicatively but... attributivelly?

Besides, at risk does sound a little too vague, doesn't it? At risk of what, catching a tropical fever, falling down a cliff, being run over by a double-decker?

 

[konungursvia]

In the education field here in Ontario people frequently speak of 'children at risk' when they mean poor children, or, alternatively, academically weak children, and often both at the same time.

 

[Hedwig]

Oh, I see. Then I can say something like "their academically weak little girl who is also a child at risk has been having some difficulties at school".

Give me a break! (Not you, society I mean.) It was all so much easier with good ol' simple words. Blunt perhaps, but to the point.

I remember someone correcting a TV journalist or presenter who had called him no vidente (roughly unseeing): "You can call me blind". Or that time when another TV presenter introduced the *African South American* (the latter is to go by today's standards) musician Oscar Alemán and he corrected her saying with a smile, "Actually I'm not couloured; I'm black".

Out of curiosity, what euphemism is used in English for blind?

NB: I'm ranting about euphemisms here. I do not by any means wish to imply anything about any kind of human differences.

 

[konungursvia]

We do usually use the term blind; also, legally blind. Visually impaired is the most common euphemism here.

 

[BobK]

:up: The only idiomatic context I can think of for the word 'upping' is the collocation 'upping the ante' (an abbreviation of 'upping [i.e. raising] the ante-post stakes [i.e. the odds available before the day of a race]'); this is a fairly close synonym (except for the 'ante-post' bit) of the more common 'raising the stakes'.. (The sense 'raising' si sometimes used informally, often with reference to a small adjustment: 'I suggest upping the dose by 5 mg'.

b

Another source of this -ing form is the informal phrasal verb 'up sticks' - meaning 'move in a way that involves considerable disruption': 'I'm not thinking of upping sticks and moving abroad for good' I'm just looking at holiday cottages somewhere sunny,'


b

 

[Hedwig]

We do usually use the term blind; also, legally blind. Visually impaired is the most common euphemism here.

Thanks.

Visually impaired, though, is to blind like hearing impaired is to deaf, right? I mean, it need not mean totally blind?

 

[SoothingDave]

Thanks.

Visually impaired, though, is to blind like hearing impaired is to deaf, right? I mean, it need not mean totally blind?

That's correct. There is a definition for "legally blind," which need not be total deficiency.