I don't think people understand how to use the word "hence"
...and it really bothers me.
I just saw a post about someone's cat, Booger, who has a brown spot right under his nose, and was named accordingly. The post title reads, "His name is Booger (Hence the brown "Booger" on his upper lip)," and it makes me want to scream a little.
Really? His name is Booger and therefore he has a spot on his upper lip? As a result of naming the poor thing Booger he grew this spot of brown fur? I think, perhaps, what you might mean is: He has a "booger" on his upper lip and hence his name is Booger.
This is an incorrect usage of the word that I see all the time and it really does drive me nuts. It's as bad as the common misuse of "hardly" (as in, "Can't hardly wait"), and far, far worse than phonetic simplifications like "aksing" questions.
Now, yes. If someone else were posting this I'd take the linguistics geek perspective, just to play devil's advocate. Languages evolve, the meanings and pronunciations of words change. But as someone (elmo_iscariot?) recently pointed out, in this day in age, there is no reason for this evolution (degradation) of language except simple ignorance.
And, in case I haven't mentioned this yet, the whole thing makes me crazy.
I just saw a post about someone's cat, Booger, who has a brown spot right under his nose, and was named accordingly. The post title reads, "His name is Booger (Hence the brown "Booger" on his upper lip)," and it makes me want to scream a little.
Really? His name is Booger and therefore he has a spot on his upper lip? As a result of naming the poor thing Booger he grew this spot of brown fur? I think, perhaps, what you might mean is: He has a "booger" on his upper lip and hence his name is Booger.
This is an incorrect usage of the word that I see all the time and it really does drive me nuts. It's as bad as the common misuse of "hardly" (as in, "Can't hardly wait"), and far, far worse than phonetic simplifications like "aksing" questions.
Now, yes. If someone else were posting this I'd take the linguistics geek perspective, just to play devil's advocate. Languages evolve, the meanings and pronunciations of words change. But as someone (elmo_iscariot?) recently pointed out, in this day in age, there is no reason for this evolution (degradation) of language except simple ignorance.
And, in case I haven't mentioned this yet, the whole thing makes me crazy.