They’re cheaper if you order them from Canada.
Don’t know about the “smarter sounding” part, but when appropos is used as an adjectivethe words are synomyms:
You truly are a dreamer.
Stephen Fry says it best, but I just wanted to point out that the OP missed the boat on “pen” as a verb by better than half a millennia.
Yes, if I were writing for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. But “theory” is a word like practically every other word in the English language: it has more than one connotation and more than usage. And since this is NOT a peer-reviewed journal, it’s likely that the average reader would infer the colloquial usage intended.
Except that I didn’t say it was incorrect. I said is was pretentious. Precisely because it is, as you point out, such an archaic usage.
- Descriptive verus prescriptive.
- There are almost no absolutely interchangeable synonyms. Obviously the words are related. But most people don’t use one versus the other because of linguistic precision; they use “apropos” because they think it makes them sound smarter than “appropriate.” See: utilze v. use, frexample.
If you understand what they are trying to say, then for an open forum, it served it’s only purpose. If you’re worried about how complete strangers perceive you and prefer them to think you’re smart, clever, perfect or whatever based on texts in a free open web forum then you have other issues beyond the scope of my give a damn meter.
If that’s how you mean it, then yes. If you think Zuckerberg is a good, average representation of the whole class of rich bastard, then using “epitome” to communicate that would be appropriate to your meaning. In other words, the definition of the word doesn’t rise and fall on your personal opinion of Mark Zuckerberg. But to say that Meryl Streep is the epitome of the working actress is nearly objectively wrong; an actress who works as a waitress and gets by doing background parts in L&O is the epitome of the working actress. And thus, if you believe that Zuckerberg is the worst of the worst of the WORST of rich bastards, epitome would be incorrect.
I’ve only every seen “viola” used with intentional irony.
Yeah, I understood that was their point, but it’s such a stretch that the “error” is minuscule to the point of meaninglessness.
So then, a voilà wallah would be a magician?
Allow me to add that “epic” does not mean “large”. Also, an “epidemic” is an infectious disease, not a widespread condition. Obesity is not an epidemic.
I could care less about this rant, really. To all intensive purposes, it’s just an arbitrary rant.
Now my eyeballs are literally bleeding from having to read what I just typed up there.
Okay, not literally literally.
No, it’s a city in Washington.
It would also make a pretty good username.
Don’t do anything wrongly. Only do things correctly.
I suspect, from context, that you would need to become a spellcaster of a middling-to-high level. You could then fill a reasonably thick spellbook with healing spells suitable for offering relief from anaphylaxis.
You’re thinking of moppets.
No. Moppets are those pre-moistened napkins that you use to clean a baby that has shat itself.