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Sigh, and huzzah!
Sep. 22nd, 2007 10:06 amThe most recent update to the OED has come out.
Me, I am neither a prescriptavist, nor a descriptivist. I am a cranky iconoclast. I know what I like, and why I like it. I suppose, were I to be pressed, I am a precisionist; with a splash of throwback.
This comes, I think, of being a widely read auto-didact. I am aware of strange words, long out of fashion. Add to this a mix of friends who are much the same, and toss in fluency in three other languages, and the mix of things I have strong opinions on (often at odds with mainstream usage) is long.
I am among those who are appalled that the most recent update includes chaise lounge.
But that is just the dictionary looking at what is (because the vast majority, seem to me, to be better able to recognise the proper use of the subject/object declensions of the interogative personal pronoun than to take issue with chaise longue being morphed into lounge [esp. because lounging is what people do in them). I would rather see that be a lounge chair/chaise longue, but there you go.
On the other hand, what warms the cockles of my miserly little heart is this addition.
"prozine: Chiefly science fiction, a professional magazine, as opposed to an amateur fanzine"
My ghetto has made a small piece of the big time.
Me, I am neither a prescriptavist, nor a descriptivist. I am a cranky iconoclast. I know what I like, and why I like it. I suppose, were I to be pressed, I am a precisionist; with a splash of throwback.
This comes, I think, of being a widely read auto-didact. I am aware of strange words, long out of fashion. Add to this a mix of friends who are much the same, and toss in fluency in three other languages, and the mix of things I have strong opinions on (often at odds with mainstream usage) is long.
I am among those who are appalled that the most recent update includes chaise lounge.
But that is just the dictionary looking at what is (because the vast majority, seem to me, to be better able to recognise the proper use of the subject/object declensions of the interogative personal pronoun than to take issue with chaise longue being morphed into lounge [esp. because lounging is what people do in them). I would rather see that be a lounge chair/chaise longue, but there you go.
On the other hand, what warms the cockles of my miserly little heart is this addition.
"prozine: Chiefly science fiction, a professional magazine, as opposed to an amateur fanzine"
My ghetto has made a small piece of the big time.
