An experienced editor who actually wants to edit, not spend her entire day babysitting projects (a little project management is OK, though). As a result, I freelance in addition to the day job -- and I work too much. Fortunately, sites like Wordie keep me sane.
What a great image: a dusty museum of un-words. Cavernous halls filled with dust and broken, empty words. Should we cry for those words that never had a chance, their parents too consumed by love of money and sales to properly care for their children, their words? Should we banish them forever to dark corners? Hmm... maybe the speakers should be banished...
Thanks, yarb. They are drilled into my head every day with the editing I do for my employer. We can only hope some of them die a sudden, horrible death -- and soon!
Hi ecbrenner. Please take this as a compliment - your "digital terms" list is surely the driest concentration of vocabulary on Wordie, if not the whole internets. I can but admire the thudding relentlessness of it. Good on you for curating these awful terms from which so many of us instinctively recoil.
Ha! Very clever, gangerh.
I played with your name.
I vote the latter. ;->
What a great image: a dusty museum of un-words. Cavernous halls filled with dust and broken, empty words. Should we cry for those words that never had a chance, their parents too consumed by love of money and sales to properly care for their children, their words? Should we banish them forever to dark corners? Hmm... maybe the speakers should be banished...
Very true. And yet someone has to take care of them, if only for later display in a dusty museum of un-words. Such bravery, ec. ;-)
When you see them all together like that you realise how thoroughly they suck the life out of language - it's the linguistic equivalent of a saltpan.
Thanks, yarb. They are drilled into my head every day with the editing I do for my employer. We can only hope some of them die a sudden, horrible death -- and soon!
Hi ecbrenner. Please take this as a compliment - your "digital terms" list is surely the driest concentration of vocabulary on Wordie, if not the whole internets. I can but admire the thudding relentlessness of it. Good on you for curating these awful terms from which so many of us instinctively recoil.