Jan 12
Looking back through the past year I naturally gravitated towards the idea book and calendar I used to keep. While I did find some dormant post ideas I might resurrect for this site, I thought this short idea (gripe really) was much more entertaining; plus I'm not too sure when I would ever post this other than now. A list of words/phrases that don't necessarily have anything to do with electronics but ones I can't stand nevertheless.
Here we go:
- Infotainment
- Blogosphere (I know I'm about 10 years late on that one but it still irks me)
- [Anything]-palooza
- [Anything]-czar
- "Let's compare apples to apples"
- Pieces parts
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Ah wait! In other news, this is my hundredth post (feels like it's been longer). Yay for using a Base10 numbering system that gives arbitrary milestones!
January 13th, 2010 at 1:06 am
I really hate that anything that even smacks of conspiracy becomes [some short descriptor]-gate.
For heaven's sake, can't people be original? I bet half the people using it aren't even sure where it came from....
January 13th, 2010 at 12:39 pm
The 24 hour TV news-palooza today borders on infotainment, lacking any sort of creativity as witnessed by the consensus of the blogosphere. To create neologism for issues of the day, all these news networks do is to take sound bite pieces parts and append -gate at the end. But to compare apples to apples, were news organizations in the past any better? I'm not old enough to have that kind of perspective.
Surely Obama should appoint a Language Czar to handle this issue. The new czar should be given wide ranging powers to deal with language pet peeves, the Negro dialect, and any and all future languagegates that may appear.
January 13th, 2010 at 1:20 pm
Hilarious, thanks Flux
January 13th, 2010 at 6:28 pm
Think how many more milestones we would have if we used a base four numbering system!