Depending on the audience it will switch back and forth between “being a joke” and “not being a joke” possibly multiple times in a single conversation.
4 Likes
Fowler’s good old fused participle. Not a huge pet peeve but I fix it where I see it. What I hate most is using flat-out wrong words that are dumb instead of the right ones. “Squash” instead of “quash” just appalls me.
3 Likes
Yeah those get me too.
I don’t like the modern substitution of orientate for orient. It sounds really dumb to me. These things go Clunk on the ear. Or at least my ear. hahahaha
4 Likes
7 Likes
The TeeVee talks to him
When I was a kid I temped for a few miserable weeks in the finance-world equivalent of a trireme rowed by chained-up galley slaves. All the little manager types there made a point of saying “utilize” as many times a day as they possibly could. This one b-word (sorry, she was) said “use” accidentally once and quickly corrected herself. Trump does the same thing—using the bigger word in the mistaken belief it makes you sound smart. God that was a crazy place. You’d know the name if I said it.
8 Likes
Or “coronate” for “crown.”
It’s lazy and sounds pompous and semi-literate.
4 Likes
Yeah. Ewwww. It sounds stupid to me.
3 Likes
3 Likes
I know that’s how those “bigger words” start getting into everyday use and it’s just wrecking the language.
And there are bitches- good ones and bad ones. It’s a decent word that has a recognized meaning and maybe it isn’t feministically polite or something but I like it.
Did you ever follow the blog: Bitch, PHD? It’s gone now I think but I was so jealous of that title. I wanted to steal it so bad.
3 Likes
When this fool shouts fake news at reporters I think the reporters should yell back, “at least I am not a fake president.”
No, he is not being sarcastic he is a fucking mad man who needs to be removed asap. I, for one, have vowed NEVER for the rest of my voting life to vote for another republican on any level of government IF McConnell’s Senate refuses to try him, convict and remove him once he is impeached.
3 Likes
The Mystery, the Unknowable Mind of God, is the perfect out for everything.
You can assert that literally anything that you want to support or defend or excuse is Divine Will, since human logic does not apply.
If it is gone, maybe you can.
True, or I could have gone with Doctor Bitch, I guess. hahahahaha I can’t keep up a blog all by myself - I do have a life. Honest. hahahahaha
3 Likes
First I’ve heard of it—oh well. You do have a certain charming pugnacious quality that nobody with any gumption themselves would change. Reminds me of that Rockwell painting “Shiner” aka “Outside the Principal’s Office.” You’ve seen it I’m sure: this little girl sitting there with a black eye, undone pigtail ribbon, general post-battle dishevelment and a look of utter joy because she just discovered she can kick ass and she loves it.
5 Likes
That’s irregardless of the point!
4 Likes
Second Coming,
King of Israel,
ordering American companies,
attempted purchase of Greenland. All in one week. And now the G-7 meeting
… Oy!
What will it take to get trump impeached?
4 Likes
T rumpp’s apparent Father might have to weigh in on that.
One last thought before I have to leave.
The tendency nowadays if not forever to say “He’s the guy that knows. . .” "They’re the people that I like. . . " What has happened to who or whom? Serious writers use it, talkers use it, I think we’re goners.
5 Likes