Pickles by Brian Crane for April 20, 2017

Good luck finding your two words in the Webster dictionary, Oxford dictionary, or even Wiktionary, Earl.

Hey it’s right here under “S” in Funk & Wagnalls Bigly Dictionary!

If everyone starts using it, it’ll get in the dictionary. Let’s go folks.

I heard someone on one of those TV courtroom shows use the term “conversating” once. Then I heard someone else use it later. Of course the real word is “conversing”. I hope conversating doesn’t ever make it into the dictionary!

How many remember when one went to an “orientation” to be “oriented”, not “orientated”?

If I type any of those words Earl mentioned, the “spell check” will catch me.

You should challenge those words, Opal, but if you are wrong it will cost you ten points.

Modern Morse Code (texting) has created it’s own language…….

He must know George W. Bush with a vocabulary like that!

…and that’s exactly how all of these new, stupid words come into being. @Laughingkitty, I did hear that term used on Judge Judy, and several times afterward. I would be happy if people just stopped saying “I seen” instead of “I saw.” We sound so ignorant, as Americans who can’t speak English.

Pickles is reliably my first out loud laugh of the day. Maybe I should just delete everything else and get on with my chores?

Ooh, somebody’s feathers are being rufflefied.

Dictionaries do not tell you what words you can and can not use; they tell you what words are or have been used.

And they don’t report all those with limited usage. Even when usage is common, dictionaries sometimes suffer a lag.

It is not Earl’s fault that he is a pioneer, a visionary and creative.

I think civil discussitation is more productive than argufying.

“Conversated” ans “tooken”; two of Judge Judy’s favorites!!! Stay in school, folks!!

Earl said them so now they are words. Frankly, I think ‘safetify’ would make a good word. It’s concise and to the point.

Beefafied, Porkafied, Beaconsfield, Smokefied. Earl has been watching too many pizza commercials . . .

“Argufy” is an adjective. Earl should use the verb form, “Argucate”.

Apparently “Worser” isn’t a word even though I’ve heard it loads of times.

xxx

I just thought of another one. Writers make this mistake ALL the time! Mistaking both for each. “I poured us both a cup of coffee.” NO! It’s “I poured us each a cup of coffee” unless we are both going to drink out of the same cup.

Is argufying with Opal the same as deathdefying?