I'm screwed, aren't I?

[ladycaviar]

I guess I'm going to have to accept it. It makes no difference whatsoever that "impact" is a noun, and only an noun. Not a verb. Worse, "invite" is a verb, only a verb, and never never never never never never never never is, was, or ever will be a noun. But what I will have to accept is that creepy skin-crawl for the rest of my life, because people simply will use those words that way. Dorkfuckers.


edit: "Orientate" is not a word either. It's "orient." Back off, before I invent new epithets, insolent weasels!

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[bronx-baroness.livejournal.com]

While I have explained several times that there is no such word as "irregardless", some people I know insist on continuing it's usage with wild abandon. I live in the DC Sphere of Grammatical Horror.

Oh, and I find tossing blessed salt around the keyboard and computer and then vacuuming it up really helps with the Icks after you've been reading email from whatever Order list you belong to... that and some single malt and a long bath. (Yes we had another polling.)

[tedeisenstein.livejournal.com]

You know, considering the topic of this thread, I was seriously tempted to suggest that the apostrophe on the word between "continuing" and "usage" shouldn't be there - you should be using "its" (genitive), not "it's" (short for "it is") - but I decided that would take things a bit too far.

(From a comment made on the Rialto about 15 years ago: "It's is not, it isn't ain't, and it's it's, not its, if you mean it is. If you don't, it's its. Then too, it's hers. It isn't her's. It isn't our's either. It's ours. And likewise, yours and theirs too.")

[bronx-baroness.livejournal.com]

LOL Actually, you're correct. That's what I get for typing too fast too late at night!

[ladycaviar.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of Oscar Wilde's "That is the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put." ;)