6 thoughts on “Language changing even faster”

1. It is in a way. It could certainly bit him on the bum.

2. 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…

3. or irony?

   (arghh more changes???)

4. 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)

5. My pet hate is ‘if and when’.

   Incoherence has never sounded so sophisticated.

6. Perhaps a “Portmanteau” word, a la Carrol, =QUiE RidicULOUS

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