Site picks
- Once we hated business jargon… Back in the day, Plain Text railed against corporatese like everyone else…
- …but now we've changed our minds. It’s quite useful really, in its proper place. Why resist?
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- The Register The godfathers of gonzo tech journalism.
- John Naughton When he comments, you know it matters.
Category Archives: Vacuous verbs
Nouns as verbs – not all bad
Being 'platformed' is indeed a terrible thing, even for an unreliable British train carriage. But nouns turning into verbs (verbifying, perhaps? Maybe not) is just part of linguistic development.
To alight – right verb, ugly use
When did you last say "alight"?
To be platformed – train grammar horror
First Great Western create new horror verb
The Downing Street verb: “To Kofi”