Yesterday I heard someone use a word on television. It was spoken by an otherwise intelligent-seeming human being (that is actually arguable, as it was someone on television) who appeared to have half a grasp of the English language. And yet, it is just so wrong, so awful, that I rank it right up there with "irregardless" and "uncomfortability."
I would have written it off as mere individual ignorance, but this was about the third time I've heard it, which tells me that it's seeping into everyday use.
Someone said, "agreeance."
As in, "So, are we all in agreeance about this?"
Are you kidding me?
As my friends know, I'm all for the evolution of language, but I deplore the ghetto-ization of it.
It's not a word! We need to kill it as quickly as possible! Possibly as quickly as we need to kill the candidacy of Rudolph Giuliani.
Who is doing this to our language? Is it the same people who think that putting an "o" at the end of a word makes it Spanish?
Are we the Land of the Stupid?
Agggh.
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It just keeps happening. One word after another, changed not because it's advancing society. Changed because PEOPLE DON'T KNOW HOW TO USE THE WORDS CORRECTLY! Yes, I'm bitter about this too.
My mummy, with her grande-dame manners AND English as her second language, was always extremely sensitive about being corrected in public. We learned that it's just rude, and you don't do it.
However, I think I may need to amend that politeness rule and start correcting whenever I feel the urge.
It's either correcting in public or calling down my flying monkeys.
haha! THe "adding an O to a word makes it Spanish" thing has bugged me no end for years!! ala Brad Pitt in "The Mexican".. I get irritated with the misuse of the word "ignorant" these days.. WTF?
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