I suffer from Grammatical Pedantry Syndrome (GPS). I object to the use of ‘there” to mean “their” or “they’re,” and I refuse to use words such as “prequel” (the correct term is “antecedent” or “precursor”).
What about proactive in place of... GASP! anticipatory?
> . . . I refuse to use words such as prequel . . .
pre·quel [pree-kwuhl
noun
a literary, dramatic, or filmic work that prefigures a
later work, as by portraying the same characters at a
younger age.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/prequel
We should do lunch sometime. Where do you office?
(How do you like those two sentences?)