THE CULTURE COARSENS WHILE THE VOCABULARY EXPANDS
20 years ago, if somebody said they'd been "keyed," we wouldn't have had the vaguest idea what they were talking about. Today, we hear "keyed" we picture car key scraping clearcoated finish in the dark.
It's a shame we can now share that common understanding. He have bred ( a large mea culpa here. I originally wrote "bread" and a thoughtful commenter gently corrected me--either I was hungry or my own culture is coarsening) so many sneaky, vengeful dorks that the "key" is now commonplace.
God Help Us.
posted by UMRBlog @ 02:52
6 comments
6 Comments:
Really making nouns into verbs is the thing to do these days. "googled" "Facebooked" "keyed" When will it stop?
Googled at least has a certain level of legitimacy. It is fully possible to google something, i.e. to use a search engine online to obtain information.
But the others....ugh.
I mean, "keyed"?! What, you unlocked your car?
I thought Alan Keyes toured with Van Halen last summer....
You're definitely not leaning into this!!
TYFCB
Uh, Tony, check your spelling. I think you mean "bred."
Now I am faced with a dilemma. I can fix and be correct, or leave it there and nobody will know what the heck your comment was about. I will fix it with a footnote.
TYFCB with actual help.
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