The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #25235   Message #296146
Posted By: GUEST,John Bauman
12-Sep-00 - 10:52 PM
Thread Name: BS: Mangling the English Language
Subject: RE: BS: Mangling the English Language
Two abuses that drive me to destracticability. "IRREGARDLESS" and "small little" as though small emphasizes the littleness as some adjectival adverb, which brings me to the ultimate abuse over which I may choose the life of a hermit. Latin/Greek derivative compound madethehellup words to make over the counter self-medication concoctions sound like real medicine "Developed in Laboratories by guys who talk like that" or, and more often, to make pseudointellectual guys like me sound like they know whatthehell they're blustering about.