Some Long-Overdue Correctioning

Not Verbs

This site is dedicated to informing people about words that are not verbs, even though people misuse them that way. You have to pick one of the non-verbs about which this site knows:

Neat idea. It’s about time computer professionals demand people stop constantly (mis)using words like, “lockdown” and “pickup” as verbs.

Me? My pet peeve is, “pedantic.” I hate when people use that wrong.

As in, “Please permit me a few moments to pedantic your harmlessly imprecise use of this absurdly opaque industry jargon.”

Because, I’m pretty sure that’s not a verb.

And, frankly, an industry as august as IT should never tolerate a semantic holocaust of this proportion without making a web page.

Glad someone’s finally heroing this issue with such infomationifying homepaging.

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  1. donschaffner reblogged this from merlin and added:
    And the list sounds like...Daft Punk song. www.dothedaft.com/app
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    I’m still allowed to get annoyed
  4. etinarcadia reblogged this from merlin and added:
    put it another way… Actually...interesting problem. The basic suggestion is that
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