i don't claim to have flawless grammar. i'm not a fabulous speller. i'm even lazy about checking. my working vocabulary is decent at best. however, i'd just like to throw it out there as a PSA:
ORIENTATED is not a word.
i can't believe the staggering number of professionals who do NOT know this. it's one of those sad cases where the faux word was introduced into conversation by so many people that it had to be made acceptable by the kind, meek, (and i'd imagine, boring) neologists who write the dictionaries.the worst part? this verbal affront comes mainly from people who deal with the media on a regular basis. it makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up like the scruff of a rabid dog. if someone sends me a WRITTEN QUOTE with "orientated" in it one more time i will grab my red pen and have at them like a drunken viking. (for the record, the only other word that sends me into a viking-like frenzy is "panties". ugh. shudder. just sounds nauseating.)
done now.
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My personal pet peeve is "preventative." It's PREVENTIVE. I've even seen it as a name of a company/institution. It's another one of those ones that's become used to often, that despite the fact that it's not a real word, it's become accepted.
What are words anyway? ;)
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