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Re: Friday Fun: What Pet Peeve makes you puke?

Subject: Re: Friday Fun: What Pet Peeve makes you puke?
From: Beth Agnew <beth -dot- agnew -at- senecac -dot- on -dot- ca>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:47:26 -0400

Yet ANOTHER peeve -- shifting meanings of perfectly good words. My # 1 peeve is "decimated". It used to mean reduced by one tenth, but now it's accepted to mean a large part. I'm gratified that 26% of the Usage Panel at http://www.dictionary.com still feel that is unacceptable. Noisome is still smelly, but probably on its way to becoming loud and boisterous.

mlist -at- safenet-inc -dot- com wrote:

Fred Ridder [mailto:docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com]
Saying "I am nauseous" is kind of like saying "I am exhausting"
when you mean "I am exhausted". T
The idiots of the world have succeeded in warping a perfectly good "nauseous" to the destruction of "nauseated" and "queasy". Rust never sleeps.

Moan.

Kevin
--

Beth Agnew
Presenting "Podcasting & Vidcasting: The Future of TechComm"
at the STC Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 2 p.m. May 10, 2006

Professor, Technical Communication
Seneca College of Applied Arts & Technology
Toronto, ON 416.491.5050 x3133
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