There Oughtta Be a Word
In many instances, the words have taken on a new meaning to fill an empty niche, and in other instances just "sound like" they mean something else, until folks get used to using them in that (technically wrong) way.
Wednesday, December 01, 2004
Our pesky language
Bumped across an interesting post on an editor blog, about words that don't mean what we think they do:
There Oughtta Be a Word
In many instances, the words have taken on a new meaning to fill an empty niche, and in other instances just "sound like" they mean something else, until folks get used to using them in that (technically wrong) way.
There Oughtta Be a Word
In many instances, the words have taken on a new meaning to fill an empty niche, and in other instances just "sound like" they mean something else, until folks get used to using them in that (technically wrong) way.
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