Re: Bad writing

[Cooper Fox <fox893@yahoo.com>]

Not everyone's stadards are as high as other people's.
 While on the subject...  I think the most annoying
phrase that i have heard in recent years is, "For
Cheap".  Something is cheap, cheaper, or cheapest... 
But not "for cheap".  I wonder how that got started.



--- Richard Chonak <rac@gabrielmass.com> wrote:
> 
> One of my bugbears of bad English usage, the misuse
> of the word
> "anniversary", appeared this week in FM 96.9's promo
> for
> September 11 programming.  They say it will be heard
> not on the
> first anniversary of the tragedy, but on "the
> first-year
> anniversary".
> 
> Since an anniversary is an annual commemoration --
> the same date
> exactly one or more years later -- that redundant
> little phrase
> stumbles awkwardly over itself: the first-year
> annual
> commemoration.
> 
> The even sloppier usage of referring to the
> "six-month 
> anniversary" of an event is beyond the pale.  
> *That* is chalk 
> on a blackboard, as far as I'm concerned.
> 
> Even contemporary lexicographers, a very
> non-judgmental tribe
> who profess to document the language as she is spoke
> rather than
> to prescribe correct usages, discreetly consign
> *that* abomination
> to non-standard speech:
> 
>   The usage problem has arisen because anniversary
> is sometimes
>   used Informally to mark other occasions, as in our
> first week's
>   "anniversary" or our three-month "anniversary."
> There is no harm
>   in this extended sense, as long as it stays in the
>   Conversational levels and Informal writing. Note
> that even in
>   this written use, the word is placed within
> quotation marks to
>   indicate its special status. 
> 
>   ["Columbia Guide to Standard American English",
> 1993]
>   http://www.bartleby.com/68/1/401.html
> 
> 
> Considering how often FM 96.9 derides the supposedly
> stupid AM
> audience, that station shouldn't let itself be
> caught in either 
> of these gaffes.
> 
> --RC
> 
> 
> 
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