I Had Wondered Why People Have Been Looking Me Up Lately
Apparently I’m a resource.
Additionally, a proud moment was realized recently when I found out that my name is now a proper noun at the old place at work, defined as “to identify a particularly stupid bureaucratic idea in a humorous, caustic, and entirely too blunt manner”.
Heh. Sometimes you influence the way an organization needs to be influenced…
Update: Barry says:
Writer-pedant guy here:
Your name has always been a proper noun.
You have now apparently been honored by your name being used as a transitive verb. :-)
To which I reply (from XKCD):
Update: Apparently I’m a neologism. Oog.
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October 8th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Writer-pedant guy here:
Your name has always been a proper noun.
You have now apparently been honored by your name being used as a transitive verb. :-)
October 8th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
Well, that hits entirely too close to home. :-)
By the way, the best way to remember the distinction between “affects” and “effects” is to remember the difference between these two sentences:
“Parental behavior affects children” = Set a good example.
“Parental behavior effects children” = Sexual intercourse sometimes results in pregnancy.
October 8th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
My favorite is “stalactites” versus “stalagmites”–my dad taught me to think of it as a ballet dancer in a wooden tutu infested with termites.
So the “mites” went up and the “tites” went down.
So much therapy to do…
October 8th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
LOL! I can relate… :)
October 8th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
You guys both have entirely too much time on your hands. Effectively, you are beginning to affect my work.
:-)
John V.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:09 am
Yes, but they do it so effectively!
-Tu
October 9th, 2007 at 4:21 am
And here I thought you liked the affecting prose.
Or me effecting prose.
Geez. Where’s the bourbon?
October 9th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
Writer-pedant No. 2 here:
Well, to be truly nitpicky, your name has always been a transitive verb, too. :-)
As in “honesty so bracing it chaps my skin” — not all that different from what might happen when one “identifies a particularly stupid bureaucratic idea in a humorous, caustic, and entirely too blunt manner.â€
/copy editor
October 16th, 2007 at 4:32 am
A lot of the prose of the commenters seems a bit affected. I don’t care about that as much as I do about the fact that your low bad taste in music just chaps my cracker ass. (Pace, Acidman)
October 16th, 2007 at 6:10 am
Heh. You should hear the stuff I like and don’t put up here…it wouldn’t exactly abrade so much as shred an eardrum or two!
So here, have something slightly more longhair.
October 16th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
Thanx, Chap. If I get the other machine running, the one with the sound card, I’ll certainly listen to that. It is one of my favorites.