I grew up believing (maybe I was even taught this) that fun, funner and funnest were the proper positive, comparative and superlative forms of fun.
But then I did some research and found some interesting debates going on:
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I don’t want to give the impression that I’m adamantly against any English slang, vernacular or witticisms. I’m mostly against the abuse of colloquialisms such as awesome, which is now so hackneyed as to be pukifying (causing one to puke, a word I just made up).
Sports jock radio host Colin Cowherd actually had a couple of good ones today.
Which were….
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I’ve brought this up before, but does using the word awesome really have any meaning?
In the beginning, God saw that it was great and enjoyable and called it bitchin‘.
Later, this was morphed into groovy, phat, sick, bad, etc.
Do we know how to communicate anymore without being groovy and, sad to say, silly and ignorant?
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Indian-born author Salman Rushdie was recently knighted by the Queen of England, where he long lived and worked. It was there almost 20 years ago that he published The Satanic Verses, which was immediately castigated as blasphemy by many in the Muslim world. The Ayatollah Khomeini even issued a fatwa of death against him that still stands.
In the wake of his knighthood, calls for Rushdie’s murder are again resonating in the Muslim world. An Iranian group even offered $150,000 to his murderer as a reward.
Thing is, no one in the Western media is really rushing to this author’s defense, as Tim Rutten notes and decries in his article in today’s Los Angeles Times.
I highly recommend that everyone read his article.
This is no time for silence, which Rutten accurately describes as "a silence in which the only permissible sounds are the prayers of the killers and the cries of their victims."
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I spend a lot of my time dealing with Internet issues. For the past few years, all the buzz has been about the social networking sites like My Space and the social bookmarking sites like Digg, which are part of what’s called Web 2.0. But have you ever read the stuff that’s being posted on these sites?
Misspellings, misuses, fragments, run-ons, jargon and slang–you name it. A lot of the stuff resembles what an illiterate Madison Avenue might produce. In fact, that might be the exact result we’re seeing on these sites–an attempt to employ Madison Avenue marketing, promotion and advertising techniques for personal gain, but without any effort at literacy.
So this reality begs the question: Does literacy matter anymore?
Maybe it doesn’t matter in a pop culture sense, but in a survival-of-the-culture sense, literacy certainly does matter. It’s like those barbarians who overran the latter-day Roman Empire. They weren’t any less cultured than many of the Roman citizens they overran.
They just had more to gain. Ooh, scary thought.
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On certain computer monitors my previous theme, named Magellan, looked fine, but on others it was just too hard to read. So, after considerable research, I’ve switched over to this new, more open and "whiter" theme named Rockin’ Big Idea.
I hope you enjoy it. Now if I can just figure out how to get my RSS feed working again. Anybody got any solutions?
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