Friday, January 19

Fair Warning

How can a blog be "inquisitive"? Let me refer to our friends Merriam and Webster for some clarification here:

Main Entry: in·quis·i·tive
Pronunciation: in-'kwi-z&-tiv
Function: adjective
1 : given to examination or investigation
2 : inclined to ask questions; especially : inordinately or improperly curious about the affairs of others

A blog can neither be given to examination nor inclined to ask questions. Therefore, if I get one more generic "I read over your blog and found it inquisitive" comment, I'm going to visit the offender's blog and regale them with a lesson in vocabulary, starting with Merriam-Webster's own 2006 Word of the Year: Truthiness.

1. truthiness (noun)
1 : "truth that comes from the gut, not books" (Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," October 2005)
2 : "the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true" (American Dialect Society, January 2006)


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