This One's for Rob
Not PC links to a list of correctives for common solecisms. Rob gets pretty worked up about these types of things, so I'm sure he'll appreciate the Economist's efforts.
posted by Amit Ghate at 9:06 AM
Thrutch
Commentary from a pro-reason, pro-egoism, pro-capitalism perspective
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Ideas cannot be fought except by
means of better ideas. The battle
consists not of opposing, but of
exposing; not of denouncing
but of disproving; not of evading,
but of boldly proclaiming a full,
consistent and radical alternative.
-- Ayn Rand
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1 Comments:
Damn straight!! I was beginning to think I was the last person in Western Civilization who still deplored the use of "begging the question" to incorrectly mean "this question is begging to be asked". Even the WSJ has now misused it on its front page.
Three cheers for the Economist. When a word like "decimate" loses its precise definition and devolves into having a vague associative meaning connoting "destroy", the English language loses one more bit of conceptual clarity and precision of expression.
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