Posted on 10/29/2004 8:25:38 AM PDT by hardhead
It has been months and months (perhaps a year) since I posted a vanity. What are your pet peeve words used on Free Republic? Maybe this can be used as a training session, eh?
DU
Nothing is ever "comprised of" anything else. It either comprises something else or it is comprised by something else. The whole comprises the parts; the parts compose the whole. People use "comprise" as a synonym for "compose" when they want to appear learned, but they achieve the opposite effect.
Made up "ist" words used in place of real words. Islamist instead of muslim, homosexualist instead of homosexual, etc etc. It's highly annoying.
Now that's one I've never heard of (probably a good thing) - 'homosexualist'.
The only place I've ever seen it used, is here. I don't grok the usage of Islamist either. We already had a word for adherents to Islam.
You've been spying on me haven't you?
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