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To: Never on my watch

I wish people would stop inventing new words.

“Become Impactful” is a stupid way to say “will have an impact on”

Impactful is not a word


2 posted on 01/05/2011 9:31:10 AM PST by Mr. K
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The media down here employs nominally literate people. It is really bad. It is funny (sad) when a news reader at the top of the hour reads his copy word for word, errors and all, he will then read it again exactly the same way at the bottom of the hour. p>
9 posted on 01/05/2011 9:39:12 AM PST by Never on my watch (When Obama was born, the movie "The Manchurian Candidate" was in production. Coincidence?)
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Inventing words is the very essence of english. Its why it is the only growing language and is going to be the only language of consequence in 50 years. We don’t have an ‘academy’ that issues language fatwas,,, thank God.


16 posted on 01/05/2011 9:55:30 AM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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