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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not just you

[johnomar915.livejournal.com]

When our leaders abuse the language as badly as ours are today.....when good education is derided in favor of the lowest common denominator....When I have a college professor tell me that spelling and grammar will not effect my grade on an essay test.....

well, yeah, I think we all are.

[scascot.livejournal.com]

I thought about it. I really, really thought about it. And then, I thought about it some more.

And I just couldn't bring myself to do it - I couldn't bring myself to to utilize those three words in a single sentence that would make your skin crawl clear off your body.

Mostly because I knew that somehow, you would hurt me. Even from way over there.

But I thought about it.

[ladycaviar.livejournal.com]

"Sent ya an invite to impact my life, but it left me all disorientated."

See? and now I have to wash my hands. Forever. And this keyboard. And my eyes, and my soul. Next I'll be saying "less calories."No! No! Not I, who have actually complained at grocery stores that it is 15 items or FEWER, goddamnit!

I've surfed for porn that didn't leave me feeling so dirty. I may convert to Catholicism just to confess and be forgiven. Or not.

Re: not just you

[ladycaviar.livejournal.com]

I wonder about society 20 years from now. We can't fully communicate now, imagine the misunderstandings as this progresses. It makes me want to be a hermit. An armed hermit.

gafferbear has been vocal on the subject as well. And look where that's gotten him. Say, where the hell is he?

[umamah.livejournal.com]

Are you sure I can't use those words in other ways? huh huhh thinking evilly.....

[dameroksanne.livejournal.com]

in these here parts the non word is....

conversate

'Me and Tyrone conversated about that'

The real Elizabethan word I DO like is.....

trifling

dirty restroom.....bad housekeeper....icky trash on garbage day?

Them people are trifling.

[windsingerbard.livejournal.com]

We still say stuff like "uncouth", too. :D

Re: not just you

[johnomar915.livejournal.com]

He and I are playing phone tag.

He has had a lean winter season but it is begining to get better. Computer problems have temporarily knocked him off line, but he is hoping to be back soon. He is actually talking about making it to Pennsic this year.

[tedeisenstein.livejournal.com]

"Verbing weirds language."

[montuos]

I'm never sure whether to die of shame or of laughter whenever my company says it services clients.

[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.)

[katyakievskaya.livejournal.com]

I hate it when people ask if I can borrow them something. Lend, dammit - and just for that, the answer is NO. :>

P.S. I have to ask the other half, but if he's a dork, does that make me a Dorkfucker? LMAO

[stitchwhich.livejournal.com]

Disorientated, she drove the wrong way down the freeway onramp - the police logged it as an 'ivite to impact her vehicle' and declined to ticket her.

There. Did that help?

[stitchwhich.livejournal.com]

"It's not the verbing that weirds the language -- it's the renounification."
- Mahk Leblanc

[stitchwhich.livejournal.com]

Depends on your take-home pay. :)

It's all about the sounds

[ladycaviar.livejournal.com]

A good epithet makes certain hostile primeval sounds, such as hiss and spit, and bares the teeth if possible. Meaning is secondary. ;)

Fuck Dorks should you so choose.

[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." ;)

Technically...

[(Anonymous)]

Technically speaking, ANY word in the English language can be turned into a verb, noun, adverb, adjective...you get the picture.

Take the words "Fuck" and "shit," for instance. I believe you can use both in all parts of a single sentence and still be grammatical about it.

OED (Oxford English Dictionary) and Websters both review as much public printed material as possible. They will watch a word over a 10 year period, or so, and then determine if the word should be added to the dictionary. Once the word is in the dictionary, or a new definition of an existing word, you can use it in Scrabble...or in your sentence. Doesn't make it any more "right," but there you have it.

I blame a lot of our failing grammar system on e-mail, chat rooms, and MMORPG in-game chat. All 3 take shortcuts. Top it off with a k-12 education system that hesitates to hurt the child's feelings by holding them back when they can't pass a class...we are doomed.

Sorry, my Laurel. Your 1st apprentice couldn't keep her mouth shut.

Stef

Re: Technically...

[ladycaviar.livejournal.com]

Sass! Sass!

I accept -- and use -- such words as Google as a verb. I believe I did in the next post, and everyone's skipped over it, so far...

There is such a thing as elegance, which, I remind you, counselor! was given as one of the reasons you are in my lineage. That, I suppose, and the sass. Definitely the sass.

Will no one rid our language of such inelegant fuckery, I say? I haven't even started on inelegant programming... [The worms! The worms! In that can madness lies!]

[gooofy.livejournal.com]

But... "impact" has been a verb since 1601. and "invite" has been a noun since 1659.

Estabinus! Estabinus! It's perfectly cromulant!

[ladycaviar.livejournal.com]

there you go again, bringing a perfectly good rant to a screeching halt with your documentable facts. Please, for the sake of my sanity, do not disabuse me of my notions regarding "orientate," for then I shall have to stab myself in the ear with an icepick.

Perhaps I should preface this all with "not elegant, sounds icky" rather than "wrong, wrong, wrongety wrong wrong."

At least I don't think I've been taken into spaceships, perhaps you will find that redeeming about me?

Re: Estabinus! Estabinus! It's perfectly cromulant!

[(Anonymous)]

I enjoy a good rant about language as much as anyone. Rant away. :) I just can't help correcting factual errors when I see them. It's a reflex.

Re: Estabinus! Estabinus! It's perfectly cromulant!

[gooofy.livejournal.com]

er, that was me.