Well, he actually said "nucular" But I get what your saying!

Wait till AI finishes the job. 😓

Using 'cyber' as a noun.

When you have departments named “Cybersecurity” its really easy to shorten it to cyber and use it as a noun. It’s also useful and efficient.

Give presents, they GIFT items. And there's no more criticising - it's up-market CRITIQUES these days.

Is it that irregular verbs confuse people?

I have come to accept that people can't keep affect and effect straight, so no one is affected, we are impacted instead, which always sounds quite uncomfortable to me.

We have forever lost the distinction between jealous and envious, and, heaven help us, the difference between disinterested and uninterested, which seems like a sad loss of a valuable concept. As they say, you better hope you get a disinterested judge in your trial, not an uninterested one.

.......phrases by saying things like "The lawn needs mowed" instead of "The lawn needs to be mowed".

And ugh "adulting" rather than acting like an adult.

Also, you "might" be a stickler (?)

But you are definitely not intolerant (!)

Like "give me the deets" (details). "No prob." Sometimes I get annoyed, but then I recall how long we have called temporary workers temps (even coining the verb temping), automobiles autos then cars, telephones phones, televisions teevees, doctors docs and so on. Is it laziness or efficiency?

Maybe we should have a thread asking for folks' least favorite examples of linguistic shorthand

With what, who, when? This bothers me more than any other.

"thing".

these days.

I love how frequently language pokes us in the eye by not being rigid. Maybe a different way to look at this is to celebrate the creativity of ever changing language.