Joe Phelan posits the following:
How come a winter storm always “dumps” however
many inches? And why is there a…“Rash” of burglaries or whatever?
Joe Phelan posits the following:
How come a winter storm always “dumps” however
many inches? And why is there a…“Rash” of burglaries or whatever?
Thoroughly enjoyed review this site. Have nothing to lampoon today but there’s always tomorrow.
Bob Keck –Phoenix
Whilst whiling away my down time, stroking my peeve ( as in , PET?) I ponder on my fundamental loathing for the term “enthuse”. I imagine an interviewee actually enthusing and wonder how quicky the paramedics might arrive…
I love variety in speach. I love it when people find new ways to express their thoughts an beliefs. I feel it is a good way for the growth of our language and also for the process of thinking. Poetry is necessary to add to our ability to reason better today than we did yesterday. Yet when the new way of saying something becomes overused, and missused, we simply exchange one word for another (usually several) and in the end we lose conciseness.
Or in therwords:
“In the LONG RUN the ENGLISH LANGUAGE is OVERRUN 24/7 with VERBOSE VERBIAGE that the POPULACE can ABSORBE only by VIEWING the BOOB TUBE. The USAGE of our language becomes LITE, and our BASIC COMPREHENSION of its ROOTS is ROUTINELY UNDERMINED.”
We have a language whose linguistic origin is instructive, yet we continue to remove the latin (french), german and greek origins to our words (seen as too egg-headish). in doing so we loose alot of meaning, and therefore often create descriptive redundancies.
Yes, language sure does take a beating sometimes but I have a pet peeve about a phrasing which actually deprives many folks from their very heritage: “Native American”. With all due respect to Native American INDIANS, what am I if I am born in American but claim no tribe in my ancestry? umm, a Native American maybe? Try telling folks you’re a Native American & almost invariably they’ll ask you, “what tribe?” I have even seen government documents which will make a race choice Native American instead of Native American Indian.
Can I ban the word “Clearly”? It seems every middle manager is using it and I’m sick of it. How can someone clearly see something they obviously can’t?
Cheers.
I don’t know exactly how to search for it, but when did journalists quit conjugating verbs? Everything on television news is singular and in the present tense, no matter if the subject is plural and occured in the past.