I don't have anything tonight to say either. Who expected that? Umm... ...I still don't have anything to say... ...Almost never is an interesting concept! The Wizard of Earthsea was a pretty innovative trendsetter! Never dig strait down! ALL THE THINGS!
All the things?
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Delete"...You Are".
Delete("All the Things You Are" is a classic jazz standard. Charlie Parker played it a lot. When he wanted to play it, he just told the band, "YATAG". That's because his favorite line in the lyrics, which came at the beginning of the bridge, was "You are the angel glow". Drummers and such were expected to understand this immediately.)
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ReplyDeleteI know that you are a word maven, and i saw a recent article that might interest you.
Al Kamen reported (Wash Post 3/6/13) that the Loop award for the most horrible new word from Capitol Hill for 2013 goes to Austan Goolsbee (an economist who was in Obama's Council of Economic Advisors).
Goolsbee said "Technology has changed training needs, but let's not overly DREADFULIZE it, if that's a word."
Kamen said "the verbing of nouns and other non-verbs
(such as 'accessorize' or 'cannibalize') is common, but
making a dreadful situation worse by 'dreadfulizing' or
'overly dreadfulizing' is getting too far out there."
When told of the award for his new word, Goolsbee said "I said that?" When shown video evidence, he lamented "Why have I been singled out for shamefication?'
Cool Papa
I especially like the line about "overly dreadfulizing". As if there were a certain level of "dreadfulizing" that is acceptable.
DeleteNeat! It doesn't surprise me that Washington's dreadfulacitionment of everything includes english, as they've taken every other chance to disjointafy anything and everything that they can. It goes with saying that CONgress is the opposite of PROgress.
DeleteCool Papa, This is a marvelous finding in the "ongoing" (ugh) chronicle of the "dreadfulization" of English... particularly by Washington types. Thanks for bringing it to everyone's attention!
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