While working in California, I was a certificated teacher. Made me feel downright certifiable.
In my opinion if you’re touching base you damn well better be wearing a silly cap and a jockstrap.
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unpredictable-nothing is unpredictable, it may be unpredicted or virtually impossible to predict accurately but nothing is unpredictable.
Deplaning is a funny word and one I find unnecessary. This is going to border on a Seinfeld-esque observation, but why is removing the people from a plane called deplaning? If putting people on a plane is called boarding, what’s wrong with unboarding or deboarding for when you take them off of the plane? You don’t say that you planed the plane when you get on it, so why do you deplane when you get off? Or you could class things up and just use disembark.
Pleaded. As in “Eddie pleaded guilty to hustling.” Um, when did “Pled” become unfashionable? “Pleaded” does not exactly roll off the tongue.
Irregardless.
How about the word “obvious” - if something is obvious, you should not need to use it. If the thing is not obvious, well, choose another word. By using words like “obviously” you are essentially telling your reader they are too stupid to know so here, let me show you…
Steve Irwin would refer to critters (after he’d picked them up, flipped them upside down, licked them, rubbed their bellies, etc.) as “disorientated.” It was jarring and endearing all at the same time.
I am grateful that the very large corporation I work for has largely avoided confoundizing verbs and nouns. Instead we are cursed with acronyms–often the same acronym will refer to different stuff, so you have to pay attention to context.
We don’t talk any more. We reach out to each other, and not in a touchy-feely way. Sadly.
Preplanning. All planning is pre- by definition.
I still say pre- is unnecessary when tacked onto any word ending in -ed.
Prevented?
Nah… “flammable” can go.
And “Nah”…
Innit?
I once saw someone use “assassinator” as a word, and I reminded him that someone who assassinates is called an “assassin.”
Preventive.
Even without the -ed. Prerecord is illogical if not impossible.
I second Reach Out instead of merely calling.
Every time I listen to one of the corporate overlords talk about “Growing the Business”, I want to smack him or her in the face with a rotting octopus. Just shut the fuck up and let us do our jobs. You’ll be surprised with the results.
“The new movie miered last night.”
Doesn’t seem quite right.
“Premiered” is Frechified fancy-shmancy anyway. What happened to “opened?” It’s Like U.S. theaters giving themselves airs by using Theatre in their names.
Homer Simpson caught proper hell from Moe for using “garage” instead of “car hole.”
“Inflammable” was the original word, meaning “capable of being inflamed (i.e. set on fire).” The word “flammable” was derived from it, and is preferred by a lot of people because “inflammable” sounds like it means “not flammable.”
I’ll nominate “seasonable” to mean “seasonal.” I often hear this (and its cousin “unseasonable”) from weather forecasters. I know it’s a long-standing usage, but it sounds wrong to me.
Ideation.
Never use this word around me in a corporate setting. It lacks imagination and I’ll have a thousand monkeys ideate ways to set you on fire.