It's not more 'transmissible'.

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It's more con-fucking-tagious.

Just spit it out without inventing new words. Who ever heard of transmissible until 4.20pm today? Does it make it better? No. It means it's more contagious.

There is NO point to this post. None.

It's really not a new word. Just because you've never heard the word before does not mean it's made up...

And Whitty couldn't say for certain 'anything' about this highly transmissible strain. The Chief Scientific Advisor did at least say that it's thought to have originated in England. Yooohooo. Made in the UK.

Transmissible is a word. It doesn't mean exactly the same as contagious

@TinselToedElf

It's really not a new word. Just because you've never heard the word before does not mean it's made up...

It's not a word that I've heard in everyday parlance ever. Ever. They just don't want to say 'contagious'.

Transmissible is a word.

So is furlough and lockdown now. Transmissible means nothing - it doesn't lend the required gravitas that contagious does.

I've heard transmissible used before, it's not a new word.

People are more likely to catch it. Regardless of the word.

When I don't know a word I usually check dictionary online rather than claiming it doesn't exist. 😂 Because like that, half an English wouldn't exist😂

Presumably when one has been talking incessantly about a contagious illness for almost a year, one develops a few synonyms.....

don't use YOUR word 'parlance' op

ridiculous post

@LadyTiredWinterBottom2

Transmissible is a word.

I never said it wasn't a word! It's more commonly used in medical subjects relating to genetic mutations being transmissible to offspring or something. I've never heard it used in the context of addressing a nation about the contagiousness of this new virus. A nation who probably don't all have degrees in biochemistry.

We are the world's first transmittable strain of this corona virus. That's brilliant. TG we could not be the world's first/best of anything

It's a perfectly sensible word. It just means 'able to be transmitted/passed on to someone else'. It also avoids the potential confusion between contagious and infectious, I guess. Out of interest, why do you think 'they don't want to say 'contagious''?

I don't have a degree in biochemistry and I know what transmissible means

JCROAFCOAGDPS, this is your current beef?

Well, we are Great Britain. We can develop our own strain thank you very much! Made in Kent (though this could be queried).

Transmissible means nothing - it doesn't lend the required gravitas that contagious does.

Gravitas? Since when does the word 'contagious' have gravitas? And how van it not mean anything, when you just denied having said it wasn't a word, and apparently told us what it meant?

Be as pedantic as you like, but you know that they edited out every incident of contagious and replaced it with the less frightening 'transmissible'. Don't want the sterling crashing again do we.

I do apologise Dear Nation, but this is a highly contagious strain that we appear to have home-grown.

Agree, transmissible is a looser word, sounds less scary than contagious and is less precisely descriptive. Could refer to anything capable of being transmitted, not just disease. Maybe this is just the word in vogue with professionals these days, but cant think why you would use it when you've got a perfectly serviceable descriptor. Although it would fit with the overall vagueness so maybe it's just about being careful not to commit too much either way

I get your anger Op, everything is fucking frustrating. Your tension seems to have been completely directed at the word "transmissable" . It's good to vent though

Yes, just having a vent into the void. Ignore me. It's not transmissible.

doesn't matter what fucking word you use - we are fucked the mening is clear