Friday, June 08, 2007

Vocabula

Big news: I found my sentimental home on the Internet. Bigger news: It isn't a porn site.

That a U.S. presidential candidate can cry Is our children learning, an admired basketball star can use the word conversate, a well-known college professor can say vociferous when he means voracious, and another can scold a student for using the word juggernaut because she believes it means jigaboo is disturbing. The Vocabula Review strives to combat the degradation of our language.

It's clear from the tagline ("A society is generally as lax as its language") that they take their mission seriously. Departments include Elegant English, Grumbling About Grammar, and the deliciously named Top Twenty Dimwitticisms.

Now, if only someone could tell me the difference between proved and proven ...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

this is the group for you! just like eats, shoots, leaves but all the time!