Today on boston.com Erin McKean takes critics of the English language to task. In a nutshell: Embrace English evolution.
...if all these words look wordish, sound wordish, and act wordish, why are they all hedged about with the namby-pamby "I know it's not a real word" disclaimers? (Note: wordish is a perfectly good word.)
They shouldn't be, I agree. I make up words all the time, right here.
Like, "besotted," or "interrobang."
It's a clever little op/ed and I found the payoff right here:
Whenever I see "not a real word" used to stigmatize what is (usually) a perfectly cromulent word, I wonder why the writer felt the need to hang a big sign reading "I am not confident about my writing" on it.
-t
1 comment:
i am a huge supporter of wordish words
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