Language Peeves

... and save Christmas in one fell swoop. 2.) You can only extol things you think are good. People don't "extol" the faults of their rivals or the evils of their enemies. I'm generally a descriptivist when it comes to grammar and vocabulary matters, but seriously, not every word needs to turn into its own antonym just because people are too lazy to crack a thesaurus. We already lost peruse that ...

Bringlish, Amglish, chocolate, strawberry....

...?" at restaurants in the next five years, you know? And I've been saying "y'all" forever, yet I've never lived south of the Mason/Dixon line. Heck, I've never lived south of New Jersey. I guess the prescriptivist / descriptivist sides of me are waging war at the moment. What do you think? And is any of this similar for you Brits who use American terms or phrasings for British things? Cheers!

... the Phoenix Airport, and that was enough to make me nauseous. (Note to those of you who paid heed to #16: I know I just technically used the word "nauseous" incorrectly, but geez, jump on the descriptivist bandwagon already.) 19) Do you know the song Total Eclipse of the Heart? Yeah, I know it....so? You're talking about that song, that one that sucks a lot? And....? 20) Do you want a bright ...