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Bastardization of words

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Diabeetus, Oct 14, 2008.

  1. franticscribe

    franticscribe Well-Known Member

    For me,impact and its many variations (impacting/impacted/impactful) are like fingernails and a chalkboard when used incorrectly or in the case of impactful, used at all.
     
  2. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    "Fantastic" is one that kind of bothers me. It literally means "hard to believe" — as in something out of a fantasy — not "really, really good," which is how it's almost always used.


    "Winningest" is another. I'm not sure that's actually a word ...
     
  3. Flash

    Flash Guest

    Cue up the Alanis CD won't you ... ironic.
     
  4. spnited

    spnited Active Member


    That's fingernails ON a chalkboard...nothing like fucking up a cliche on a bastardization of words thread.


    Invite as a noun... as in "they got an invite to the tournamnt." instead of invitation.
     
  5. Birdscribe

    Birdscribe Active Member

    Redundancies drive me batshit crazy, with "past history" and "close proximity" leading the straitjacket drive.

    I told the journalism class I used to teach that I guarantee they would turn on the TV sometime in the next week and hear some clueless talking-head mutter "close proximity."
     
  6. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    The proliferation of adding "-ness" to words to make them adjectives. Oy.

    For you sports talk radio fans, 'untracked' is not even a word, even as people use it to mean "on track."
     
  7. ink-stained wretch

    ink-stained wretch Active Member

    The verbization of a noun.
     
  8. I just wanted to point that out.
     
  9. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    Here's one for any of you who have covered a game involving John Brady ...

    "Score the ball ... "
     
  10. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    outstanding and virtually.
     
  11. doctorx

    doctorx Member

    For example, when did golf become a verb?
     
  12. spaceman

    spaceman Active Member

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