Friday, April 5, 2013

"I don’t shudder when I see or hear 'This year’s spend is excessive' and 'Her book was a good read'..."

"... even though I can think of other, perhaps more elegant ways of saying these things. On the other hand, 'There is no undo for that' strikes me as infelicitous, and I am still not completely comfortable with the use of the noun 'disconnect' as a synonym for 'disparity' or 'discrepancy' — although it has been around since the 1980s."

Are you the sort of person who frets about the evolution of language, like this problem of verbs clamoring to become nouns?

I don't want to push you past your comfort zone, but... have you heard about gay marry?

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