Quoted today’s Age
Seven’s director of programming and production, Tim Worner, said his network was not gambling heavily on reality TV. “That notion is querulous.”
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It is in a way. It could certainly bit him on the bum.
That comment itself looks like another change of language, or perhaps a happy typo. If I recall correctly, to bit is to place a bit in an animal’s mouth, e.g. bitting a horse. So if this fellow is bitted on the bum…
or irony?
(arghh more changes???)
actually a pet hate of mine was:
that begs the question “what …”
instead of using it in its philosophical sense…
although i think i have adapted to this, inasmuch that it can be interpreted as:
this fact being revealed, begs us to ask this question: …
still gets on the nerves of some philosophers i know though…
(also: alternate route instead of alternative route…does it mean you have to change lanes quickly)
My pet hate is ‘if and when’.
Incoherence has never sounded so sophisticated.
Perhaps a “Portmanteau” word, a la Carrol, =QUiE RidicULOUS