08.14.08
Speaking deliberately
Those of you who deliberate on why words like conversate and orientate seem to permeate sloppy speech and writing, do you abominate deliberate? If we converse and orient, why don’t we deliber instead of deliberate? In fact, we once did; the first recorded use of the verb deliber, from Chaucer, preceded the verb deliberate by about 150 years. Deliber on that for a while.
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JohnnyB said,
August 14, 2008 at 11:48 am
I will rumin on that one. It will domin my thoughts. Though, I must st that my ability to cogit is slowed right now because I just my lunch.
Bill Brohaugh said,
August 14, 2008 at 6:34 pm
JohnnyB, even though I want to try to out-do you in this year two-thousand-and- , and even though your response gr s on me because it’s so gr (and I h you for it), I won’t contempl a response.
OK, I responded. I had to. Problem is, your post is simply superb. The perfect match of form and content. Quietly and simply, I bow to you.