It was half tongue-in-cheek, half sarcastic, and 50% due to multi-tasking while I typed. 
Nice catch.
Sure, the report may not phrase it that way, but if one was describing, briefly, what happened to someone else, “improper signage” seems to cover the situation accurately and concisely.
Unlike nickles or potato chips, there are certain grouping of symptoms that are more useful than others. Look, we call certain groupings of letters ‘words’, some ‘acronyms’, some ‘initialisms’, and some ‘jibberish’, among other descriptions. People who diagnose illnesses as a profession seem to have found a certain usefulness to describing certain collections of symptoms differently than certain other collections of symptoms.
I’m certainly not going to go to the doctor complaining that I have ‘symptoms’ (not least because I don’t have health insurance), I’m going to describe the symptoms that I have and hope that the doctor can match them with a known symptomatology. Because not all groupings of symptoms are equally useful. Somewhere along the way, doctors seem to have decided that groupings along the lines of “symptoms associated with lupus” are worth differentiating from groups along the lines of “symptoms that start with the letter Q”.
Now, if you were serious about your whiny complaints, you would have simply said you were doing more than one thing at a time instead of invoking the artificial and pretentious word “multitasking” (no hyphen) that implies that you are operating with computer-like (in)efficiency. 
Missed this one.
I have two groupings of nickels. One group is mixed with the handful of change I pulled out of my pocket after a day of shopping. The other group is twelve 1920-D Buffalo Nickels.
If I said, “I have some nickels,” you could safely assume I was referring to a group of non-important, non-specific nickels. Some could be the same year or whatever, but overall they are pretty interchangeable, and not special. If I said, “I have a collection of nickels,” these are special nickels I am referring to. Ones that mean something to me. Particular nickels (band name?).
“Collection of” has a different connotation than “some,” “signs” has a different connotation than “signage.”
Connoisseurs (“people who like”) of the language (“words”) savor (“like”) these subtle (“small”) nuances (“details”). Deal with it (“STFU”).
Congratulations on having one of the 10 Most Boring Fucking Hobbies On Earth!
And I thought I made it clear in the OP that I was done keeping quiet about idiots who use words like “signage” in a ridiculous effort to make themselves sound smarter, when what they really mean is “sign” or “signs”. I’m not going to shut the fuck up; why don’t you?
BZZT! Thanks for playing. I’m not a numismatist (“coin collector”), it was a hypothetical (“fake”) example (“model used to get my point across”).
I thought I made it clear (“I used small words”) in my last post (“that thing up there you didn’t understand, even though I used small words”) that most people use those terms not to make themselves sound smart, but because they are the proper words to use in the situation. In many cases, “sign” is the proper word. In many other cases, the proper word is “signage,” (no matter how often or vehemently (“loudly”) you wish to protest (“whine”)).
The most precise word to use in a given situation isn’t always the smallest.
(and I’m not going to STFU for what I suspect is the same reason you say you won’t: I’m fairly certain I’m right, and I’m even more certain you’re wrong)
You can’t read very well, can you? My pitting was all about
You don’t even have the issue right, jackass.
It wasn’t about every use of certain words, only about the ones where what they really mean is “sign” or “regardless” or “oriented” or “symptom”, and they are using an extraneous syllable or two in a pathetic attempt to sound smarter than they really are. But you, like so many of the other children, can’t resist what you see as a chance to play “gotcha”.
You’re wrong. You didn’t understand the issue as stated in my OP, and you are now just yelling to hear yourself yell. Scream your head off, dipshit. It won’t change my opinion on this issue, but it already has changed my opinion of you.
It’s my pet peeve, and fuck you if you don’t like it.
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Soo, we can forget about this part of your OP?
'cause you conveniently have.
CMC fnord!
It’s a good pet peeve to have, unfortunately you’ve chosen poor examples for your rant. How about you go home, do some study, and come back with some really pit worthy examples (irregardless is not a bad one.)
Actually, if you’ll read the title of your post, it says “Stop making up words, imbeciles!”
You thought the word “symptomotology” was made up. It wasn’t, it was just spelled incorrectly. You were wrong.
You’re tired of hearing the word “signage” because in all cases, one could use the word “sign” to mean the same thing (“It’s a bullshit word”). One can’t. You were wrong.
Sure, some people use “signage” or “symptomatology” incorrectly. That doesn’t mean they’re “bullshit words” or made up, or that they can’t be used correctly.
Gotcha! Ya?
[sub]Incidentally, I’m certainly not yelling, as I’d hate to wake the neighbors at such an early hour. The only noise here at the moment is the heating system and my computer fan. So…wrong again.[/sub]
On preview, 1920s Style “Death Ray” has a good suggestion. I’m a copy editor and thus have a similar pet peeve: When people use language incorrectly according to standard definitions. In this thread, you did. Read this and perhaps you’ll find a new set of words for your pet peeve (and you’ll be correct, to boot).
Actually, I’ve thought about it, and it really is a good rant. The doctor should have said “symptom”, lets put that in the quote shall we?
Yeah, that’s much better.
Oh, and Snowboarder Bo, what’re your thoughts on the use of the word “gotten”?
I wonder what Bo made/would make of “A Clockwork Orange”?
Personally, I have found this thread most embiggening.
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Well, I was in disagreement with Snowboarder Bo before, but now that he’s shown his clear superiority to the rest of us by belittling coin collectors and accusing other posters of having “severe social problems,” I… well, actually I still disagree with him. Not totally; I will concur that the overuse of jargon is annoying, and some back-formations and neologisms completely grate on my nerves. But it’s not true that most of the words he cited are “just made up” and are always in error whenever used any time, anywhere. Words have meanings. Precision in language is to be valued.
Here’s a couple of words for you, Snowboarder Bo: “ad hominem”. Unlike “hoax,” they can be found in most major dictionaries.
Dammit.
I saw this thread for the first time just now, and tried to guess the minimum range of posts in which the word “cromulent” would appear.
I went with 6. I was WAY too conservative.
Bo, Dude, you beefed that one badly!
Well, there are two lower legs bones, so they would still need to differentiate between them. I guess they could call them ‘the narrower one’ and ‘the somewhat bigger one,’ but that might get confusing.
I do think ‘symptomotology’ is needlessly long. Why can’t it just be ‘symtomology’ instead? Why the need for that extra ‘oto’ syllable being in there?
This thread must not pass without a mention of one of my favorite Medical Doctor words.
Note how the Brits have eloquently explicated the pitch and frequency of this phenomenon.
Talon Karrde- you know there are two bones in the lower leg, right? Tibiaand fibula? One is on the outside, and one is on the inside- if we’re going to call them “inside” and “outside” bones of the lower leg, we might as well call them tibia and fibula- where one word works in place of six.
A scalpel is a particular type of knife with a particular blade suited to some kinds of surgery- just as a paring knife is a particular kind of knife used to remove the skin from vegetables and a chef’s knife or cleaver is a different shaped type of knife with different uses.
When a surgeon asks for a scalpel, it’s because if they asked for a “Knife” they could get a scalpel, a Simon Fistula Knife, a Liston Phalangeal Knife, a Vaughn Abcess Knife or a Nagata Sculpture Knife- some of which come with more than one shape of blade.
Doctors ARE saying exactly what they mean, because they are talking about very specific things.
I’ve spent all bloody weekend learning the differences between hyperkinetic/hyperdynamic/tapping/sustained/diffuse palpable apex beats. Just saying “If I put my hand over the patient’s chest, I can feel their heart beating” isn’t going to cut it.
Hey Irish, I think Talon was being facetious…