And why am I hearing everywhere?
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When I complain of such egregious matters you tell me that language is a growing, evolving thing and I should just suck it up. Hmmm.
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True enough. But to my ear this use falls outside of that truism, mainly because it violates basic grammar.
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What really bugs me is “impact” used as a verb.
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It’s almost like someone’s got $$$ invested in getting everyone to use the damn word. And I agree with you – bugs me too.
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Just imagine what comes next: unimpactful, unimpactfulness, preimpactful, postimpactful. It’s scary – they are like zombie words that eat your brains.
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Oh, excellent! Nice to meet another language maven . . . welcome yearstricken.
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My pet peeve is specificity. I don’t know why I hate it, I just do . Specifics and details were good enough until a year or two, now I hear specificity constantly .
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I think we could draw up a very long list of such words.
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How about incentivize. That little vise on the end fits perfectly around my head and grows tighter every time I hear it. I get “incentsed.”
Sorry. Sometimes I can’t help myself.
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Yeah, that one rings weird as hell – it’s downright awkward and yet there it is, another verb from noun. There’s also a syntax issue which kind of makes the damn word, um, oxymoronic??? 🙂
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You folks beat me to my contributionization. I’m not incentivized.
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omg, I fear you have just started the ball rolling on yet another word!!!! Contributize . . . .
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I might even be incensified.
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Elvis help us bruce, I think that one already is a ‘word’.
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