Three little words
Apr. 20th, 2021 09:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
offcntrAll right folks, Frank is gonna take a moment to rant about words.
I love words. I'm fascinated by words. I've been a voracious reader since six years old, and misuse of words drives me nuts. I don't mean misplaced apostrophes, or saying diffuse when you mean defuse (though that one still bugs me). No, what's got my cranky on overdrive has been badly mangled forms of perfectly useable English verbs. Three I've seen lately:
1. Coronated. Read a fantasy novel recently that I otherwise rather enjoyed, but it kept using this abomination throughout the text. You don't need a back formation from coronation, people, if you simply use the original root: Crowned.
2. Wreaked. Okay, this one may be a lost cause at this point, but still, we're losing a lovely word to this monster. Repeat after me, boys, girls and enbees: The past tense of wreak is Wrought.
3. Predated, predating. Heard this one in a podcast today. They weren't talking about forging time-stamps, but rather that thing that predators do. You know, Preying?
Rawhr.
I love words. I'm fascinated by words. I've been a voracious reader since six years old, and misuse of words drives me nuts. I don't mean misplaced apostrophes, or saying diffuse when you mean defuse (though that one still bugs me). No, what's got my cranky on overdrive has been badly mangled forms of perfectly useable English verbs. Three I've seen lately:
1. Coronated. Read a fantasy novel recently that I otherwise rather enjoyed, but it kept using this abomination throughout the text. You don't need a back formation from coronation, people, if you simply use the original root: Crowned.
2. Wreaked. Okay, this one may be a lost cause at this point, but still, we're losing a lovely word to this monster. Repeat after me, boys, girls and enbees: The past tense of wreak is Wrought.
3. Predated, predating. Heard this one in a podcast today. They weren't talking about forging time-stamps, but rather that thing that predators do. You know, Preying?
Rawhr.