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The word Frenemy was added to the Webster dictionary along with other classics as staycation.....

What in the heck is wrong with the world?

Nothing annoys me more than the smushing of two words together like this because it's catchy for Us magazine to print. They are not actual words worthy of being in the dictionary.

Others on my list of words to hate: celebreality, speidi (don't even get me started!), TomKat, Brangelina, and many others.

Ok..my rants over. Sorry..it just dumbfounded me that we have dumbed down society to the level of frenemy being worthy of a spot in the dictionary.
 
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I'll bet that if people 200 yrs ago could hear us talk, they'd think we're ALL stupid, even those who don't use those words. It's all about your perspective.
 
babyblues said:
I'll bet that if people 200 yrs ago could hear us talk, they'd think we're ALL stupid, even those who don't use those words. It's all about your perspective.
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Speaking of about 200 years ago...

What if our Founding Fathers could hear our Government talk.... not to get political (or ruffle any feathers :rolleyes:). I bet their head would literally explode.
 
Absolutely. Have you noticed when you read letters and such from 100 years ago how much more articulate and expressive people were than we are today. I guess not having telephones and TV they had to focus more on the written word and volcabulary than we do today.
 
aggromere said:
Absolutely. Have you noticed when you read letters and such from 100 years ago how much more articulate and expressive people were than we are today. I guess not having telephones and TV they had to focus more on the written word and volcabulary than we do today.
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And they were in PEN and cursive! Not that I have room to talk. I always type because you can't read my writing cursive or not! :biggrin:
 
Frenemy ..... I thought we had a word for that: Backstabber.
 
aggromere said:
Absolutely. Have you noticed when you read letters and such from 100 years ago how much more articulate and expressive people were than we are today. I guess not having telephones and TV they had to focus more on the written word and volcabulary than we do today.
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But...but...we can't SURVIVE without cell phones!!!! Are you crazy!?!? LOL

Seriously, you're absolutely right. Read the Declaration of Independence. People don't write like that anymore, they don't think like that anymore. I much prefer to read the classics of literature than 99.9% of the garbage that comes out in print today, including newspapers. I am simply baffled by the number of people I've met that say, "Oh, I don't like to read. It's boring." I have to bite my tongue every time I hear that because I'm tempted to retort with, "Yeah, well it shows."
 
I get really irked when I see "your" instead of 'you're" Two entirely different meanings, yet ther are mis-used 99.98% of the time.

I mean is it so hard to be correct? "It is YOUR language," and NOT, "It is you're language." And, "Are YOUR sure that is your hammer?" Geeeeese!
 
Fred said:
I get really irked when I see "your" instead of 'you're" Two entirely different meanings, yet ther are mis-used 99.98% of the time.

I mean is it so hard to be correct? "It is YOUR language," and NOT, "It is you're language." And, "Are YOUR sure that is your hammer?" Geeeeese!
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I assume this was an "Oops"! :wink:
 
Wheaties said:
Speaking of about 200 years ago...

What if our Founding Fathers could hear our Government talk.... not to get political (or ruffle any feathers :rolleyes:). I bet their head would literally explode.
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Or as Glen Beck says......'Blood will squirt out of your eyes!'

It's maddening!!!



Barney
 
babyblues said:
But...but...we can't SURVIVE without cell phones!!!! Are you crazy!?!? LOL

Seriously, you're absolutely right. Read the Declaration of Independence. People don't write like that anymore, they don't think like that anymore. I much prefer to read the classics of literature than 99.9% of the garbage that comes out in print today, including newspapers. I am simply baffled by the number of people I've met that say, "Oh, I don't like to read. It's boring." I have to bite my tongue every time I hear that because I'm tempted to retort with, "Yeah, well it shows."
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I don't own a cell phone... I don't want to be that connected to the world... and I'm in full agreement with your retort... it's amazing today at the number of people who don't read, won't read or even can't read... There was a lady in my booth last weekend that was wearing a t-shirt that read "Read a book, it's more enlightening" ... or something to that effect... I told her I agreed with her shirt... I would rather have a book than a TV.... my problem is I need to see an eye doctor... my vision is changing from near sighted to far sighted and my arms are getting too short to comfortably read.... where we live, we don't get a newspaper, and I miss my Sunday paper more than anything.
 
We used to be practical, thats not good enough anylonger because now we have to be practicable where the h$#% did that come from? :befuddled::befuddled:
 
aggromere said:
Absolutely. Have you noticed when you read letters and such from 100 years
ago how much more articulate and expressive people were than we are today....
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Perhaps you never read The Federalist Papers?
Hamilton is sooo overbearing; he drones on and on and on to make each point.
The man never learned the meaning of succinct.
He was a brilliant thinker but Madison and Jay were much more readable;
hence, IMHO, persuasive. :biggrin:

I do agree with the OP; it's a say day when nonsense such as frenemy becomes accepted language.
I'm glad the first time I heard the stupid word was the day I heard the news report. :wink:
 
Fred said:
I get really irked when I see "your" instead of 'you're" Two entirely different meanings, yet ther are mis-used 99.98% of the time.

I mean is it so hard to be correct? "It is YOUR language," and NOT, "It is you're language." And, "Are YOUR sure that is your hammer?" Geeeeese!
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67.8% of statistics are made up on the spot.

heheheheh
 
In my opinion, this is a rant worth having. If I were made Dictator of Language I would also impost strict limits on utilizing non-standardized spelling for naming with strong penalities for violations for non-standardized names assigned to humans. The salaries for top athletes would be closely tied to the stupidity of their nick names (I'll be the judge of what is stupid and what (if anything) is not.)
News commentators who are suspected of potentially hyper ventlating, would be given of thin book of a very limited group of words that they could use.

In five years or five weeks none of it would matter, but for the next five minutes I would feel great about the ability to impose language purity laws.
 
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