Mar 01, 2004 14:19
I am admittedly a grammar-nazi. I do not see this as a bad thing, though I am a minority in that regard. As such, I try and refrain from making corrections during casual conversation in good company. I am not always successful in my restraint, but that is perhaps another post. Recently however, there is a bit of jargon that seems to be creeping it's way into common vernacular, a made-up word that has made me wish to crush the tongue of it's speaker under my bootheel as punishment for the pain it causes my ears. Again, I've resisted comment, until now, when I saw this word-that-should-not-be, used in written text. And so, it must be said:
There is no such thing as being obliviated You may be (and likely are) oblivious. You can (and probably should) be obliterated. But even if both those factors are true, they are still two circumstances not to be combined into one.
Starting now, I reserve the right to separate from the writer or speaker of the aforementioned chimerical abomination of a word, a finger-joint or tooth, respectively, for each violation. Warnings will be issued at my discretion but with an unlikely frequency. That is all, for now.