Stop using “pen” as a verb. It doesn’t make you sound clever, it makes you sound pretentious.
Also stop saying “differentiate” when you mean “distinguish.” “Apropos” is not just a smarter-sounding synonym for “appropriate.” Look up “epitome”; it doesn’t mean what you think it means.
And for the sake of all that’s holy, an adverb-adjective pairing does not equal a compound adjective: that’s what adverbs are for–to modify adjectives (and verbs of course.) In other words, fully loaded does not require a hyphen. Nor does wholly owned or maddeningly stupid. Inserting an unnecessary hyphen does not, once again, make you look smart. No one looks stupider than someone trying too hard to look smart.
While I can’t think of a time when I did use pen as a verb, it is one and this complaint is full of shit. To pen a letter or “go pen those pigs” is 100% reasonable and correct.
That’s a mixed bag of alleged linguistic infelicities to be so testy about. You might try organizing, even researching, your ideas for a post before you actually hit Post.
You’re right about that 2nd usage, but I’d never heard it before now. If someone had said that I would’ve been embarrassed by proxy for their ignorance. I’m humbled.