I authored an emotional, organic Neatorama post that got decimated back in the day (but post-9/11). Sweet!

• Xerloq
  January 9th, 2008 at 3:18 pm

  Here’s my entry. It’s a bit wordy, but it works.

  I decided I wanted to give back, in an organic way as I author this sentence: back in the day, Black Friday actually, I feared being thrown under the bus as I prepared my webinar on the perfect storm – to decimate hat sweet random surge that leads to a pop of emotional rapture – in a post 9/11 world where wordsmithing is the new waterboarding, but decided to press forward because, well, it is what it is.

• Xerloq
  January 9th, 2008 at 3:19 pm

  Edit button? It should read:

  I decided I wanted to give back, in an organic way as I author this sentence: back in the day, Black Friday actually, I feared being thrown under the bus as I prepared my webinar on the perfect storm – to decimate that sweet random surge thatleads to a pop of emotional rapture – in a post 9/11 world where wordsmithing is the new waterboarding, but decided to press forward because, well, it is what it is.

• anon
  January 9th, 2008 at 3:29 pm

  What about “speaks to”? That really grinds my gears.

• johzephine
  January 9th, 2008 at 3:33 pm

  under … the bus?

• Dianne
  January 9th, 2008 at 3:47 pm

  Don’t forget that totally awesome word “awesome”!! But I think that has been overused for more than a year now. Or maybe it just seems like it!

• asteriddd
  January 9th, 2008 at 3:50 pm

  “decimated” means “killed ten percent”. it does not mean “obliterated”. blatant verbal misuse of words really grinds MY gears.

• Dianne
  January 9th, 2008 at 3:57 pm

  Ooops - I forgot, please allow me to add one more: “veggies.” Please just go ahead and say vegetables. Are we all in that much of a hurry? Thanks!

• VonSkippy
  January 9th, 2008 at 4:22 pm

  Meh. They’re just words. Sticks and Stones etc. etc.

• Christophe
  January 9th, 2008 at 4:30 pm

  Webinar in 2007??? this was years ago!

• Miss Cellania
  January 9th, 2008 at 5:29 pm

  What’s a Webinar?

• Miss Cellania
  January 9th, 2008 at 5:30 pm

  Never mind, they have the definitions… duh.

• Tempscire
  January 9th, 2008 at 5:54 pm

  asteriddd:

  That’s funny, ’cause dictionary.com says your definition is obsolete. First definition: to destroy a great number or proportion of.

  Ain’t language fluidity grand?

• Paul
  January 9th, 2008 at 7:06 pm

  “Awesome” use only seems to have escalated now that it has completely crossed over into the soccer mom mainstream, but it’s been overused for easily a decade. Baggy pants have finally buggered off, now it’s awesome’s turn.

  “Take it to the next level” and “big time” are out of control, and “think again” is really starting to irk me - as in, “If you think the rainy season’s over - think again!” It seems to passive-aggressively suggest that you’re an ignorant boob.

• Alex
  January 9th, 2008 at 11:54 pm

  Sorry Xerloq! We experimented a bit with the edit comment button, but that little piece of code choked the server, so we disabled it.

• Chris
  January 10th, 2008 at 12:28 pm

  Inappropriate use of the word “decimate” has always annoyed me. I mean the word contains “DECI” for pete’s sake, it means to reduce by 1/10th. The Doctor Who finale used it correctly this year and I cheered for the baddie, I was so excited.

• leksvik
  January 10th, 2008 at 2:21 pm

  Advertisers seriously need to stop it with the “all new”.
  That “all” is either not true (An “all new” car, really? So they didn’t use any technology they’ve used on any previous car they made? They started from scratch?), or redundant (An “all new episode” of a TV show? What, as opposed to partially new?).

  Also, “all wheel drive”… Now, how many wheels would that be - five?

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