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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsQuibble. Wince. Cringe.
Just heard a professional broadcast journalist use the word "coronated." This was scant moments after another professional spoke about how a voter is "orientated" toward a certain candidate. A while back there was a sign, carried by a teacher, that read "Teachers Teach. Administrators Administrate."
Dad would have made us write the word "crowned" 500 times, and he'd have grounded us until we were properly "oriented"; we'd have been disowned for repeated egregious failures to "administer" the English language with appropriate care.
Yeah, I know, picky picky picky. But sheesh.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)... and I'm eternally grateful.
randome
(34,845 posts)But the language is changing even more rapidly due to the Internet. We have to make adjustments, too.
JohnnyLib2
(11,211 posts)Although, I'm becoming grateful when words include vowels....
enlightenment
(8,830 posts)amusing article that was in the Daily Fail a week or so ago, attention to those details means you have officially reached middle age!
I'm right with you - words are a terribly thing to waste in such an egregious fashion.
Here's the article - it's written from the British male perspective, but much rings true for all:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2086556/Mid-life-madness-Men-wanting-machine-gun-teenagers-drop-Sprite-cans-pavement--screaming-fewer-Radio-4.html
bemildred
(90,061 posts)LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)by the quasi-educacated