[jerf]

Welcome to the world of $LARGE_ORGANIZATION bashing. People usually never read anything that comes from $LARGE_ORGANIZATION, but love to complain about it. Unfortunately, that is especially true for $EVERYONE.

(Sorry. Excessively-specific adjectives are a bit of a pet peeve of mine.)

[yaix]

Just read European newspapers and the justifications of politicians in Europe when they want to implement some unpopular policy.

Its not uncommon that a political party introduces a policy first on the EU level (say, in the Commission) and then complain about it later that the "EU forces them" to implement it on a national level (even though it was that same party that promoted it in Europe). Its the easiest way for politicians to blame unpopular but necessary policies on somebody else.

[ppod]

Aren't those nouns?

[jerf]

In this case, sure. I mentally think of it as the excessively-specific adjective problem, because usually I'm wanting to replace "British media" with "media" or something. This shot right off the adjectives entirely. (This is explanation, not defense, BTW; you are entirely correct.)

[mikeash]

I would call it a problem of excessive specificity in general, where specifying adjectives is an example of it!

[jerf]

I stand corrected.

[jeremyjh]

Proper nouns at that.

[DeepDuh]

You do like shell script, don't you? ;)