Sunday, May 15, 2011

Greek

This post would complain rather tediously about the loss of general knowledge of the ancient world, after someone came up with the word "nemeses", and someone in Slate wrote: "I was her mentor, and she was my mentee".

2 comments:

  1. We should be finding this trend concerning.

    Trouble is, I can't correct any corporatespeak -- or its bastard stepchild, total etymological ignorance -- because a good half of its proponents are learning English within the corporation and my corrections will only be seen as a try at cultural purity if not a subtle racism.

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