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gruntled in the news
Jan. 3rd, 2010 02:06 amLightning struck twice this weekend, in the form of two different entries in my web reading which mentioned words that are negatives without proper positives, like "gormless" or "inchoate". Ben Zimmer's NYT post on why Scalia hates the word 'choate' was pretty good, but the Inky Fool post on gormless, feckless, reckless & ruthless was more fun, I thought.
I've enjoyed reading "Inky Fool" a lot since discovering it via a comment on "How To Write Badly, Well". In general I'm trying to reduce the clutter in my RSS reader, but I liked this so much that I took out a geek blog (Gizmodo) so I could add this in instead. Who cares what the gadget story of the hour is? Stories about language will keep.
(Well, I care, but I'm trying to diet, and gadget stories have no lasting nutritive value. Either something will be important, in which case I'll hear about it via some other channel, or I didn't need it taking up reading time in the first place. Seriously, Gizmodo has too many posts, with too low quality. I'm trying to clean things like that out of my inbox.)
I've enjoyed reading "Inky Fool" a lot since discovering it via a comment on "How To Write Badly, Well". In general I'm trying to reduce the clutter in my RSS reader, but I liked this so much that I took out a geek blog (Gizmodo) so I could add this in instead. Who cares what the gadget story of the hour is? Stories about language will keep.
(Well, I care, but I'm trying to diet, and gadget stories have no lasting nutritive value. Either something will be important, in which case I'll hear about it via some other channel, or I didn't need it taking up reading time in the first place. Seriously, Gizmodo has too many posts, with too low quality. I'm trying to clean things like that out of my inbox.)
