Bastardization of words

Could be career numbers.

 

YOU BETCHA!

 

True. I didn't think of career numbers.


What is that silver thing crawling up Palin's right hooter?

 

No, that word would be "unexpectedly." Nothing ironic about that.

 

That's funny.

 

Grizzly, grisly, etc. What the fuck, it's a forum. Don't see it often in print spelled correctly or incorrectly or used properly or improperly. It's the TV types who like the word and they're not often asked to spell. The word murder doesn't any embellishment. And the guy who died with his brains splattered throughout broken is plenty of enough description . . . doesn't need grisly.

 

It's okey, bukweever. Its just spelin and werds.

 

Hapless does not mean bad or inept or incompetent. It means unlucky (look it up). That one rarely gets used correctly. Sort of like hopefully.

Something I see far too often is, "Ed Knucklehead wasn't phased by his team's poor start..." It's "fazed," meaning disturbed or disconcerted.

Also, I think the redundant murder term we were going for is "brutal murder." I would contend murder is by definition brutal, while it isn't always grisly (indeed, it can be done with little muss or fuss).

I just had to correct a "you're" to a "your" tonight, in the copy of a guy who probably makes far more than I do. Sigh.

And "suffer" an injury is fine. If you don't think you suffer a broken leg, you've never had one. And as someone else pointed out, the player often has his leg broken by someone other than himself.

 

Unless you are discussing time travel by use of worm holes. Richard Gott (as well as a bunch of other guys smarter than all of us) has a great book out, Time Travel Through Einstein's Universe, that explains how the speed of light is really a measure of time, traveling through worm holes to view the past and overall fascinating stuff.

I don't mean to be a douche but astrophysicists would disagree with light years being distance and not time. My bet would be, they think it is both.

 

I have no idea what everyone's talking about with "hopefully." Every online dictionary I've looked it up in tonight (including m-w.com and dictionary.com) said the usage everyone uses now started being used widely in the 1960s and is now standard. It's not a bastardization any more than saying using gay for homosexual is a bastardization. The word has transitioned.

 

The speed of light might be considered a measure of time on some esoteric level, but a light-year is not a measure of the speed of light. It's the distance light travels in one year. That is not a measure of time by any stretch.

 

When did transition become a verb?