Why the hell is everyone using the word "egregious" nowadays? It's the new "surreal."
-"My egregious behavior"
-"My egregious blitz"
-"My egregious choice"
COURTESY of the most respected of dictionaries, dictionary.com:
e⋅gre⋅gious
1.
extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant: an egregious mistake; an egregious liar.
2.
Archaic. distinguished or eminent.
e⋅gre⋅gious⋅ly, adverb
e⋅gre⋅gious⋅ness, noun
Synonyms:1. gross, outrageous, notorious.
Is the reason why we're using this word this term because we've just been bad? Or are we simply trying to sound smart to preserve dignity after making a false comment?
Why are we so terribly wrong all the time this season?
If our previously trendy word was "surreal," and now we're at "egregious," what's next?
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Showing posts with label times. Show all posts
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Paranoid
Ok I know this word is overused nowadays, but I have a tendency to be quite paranoid. I'll walk down a street in Boston and envision some crazy man randomly attacking me, or perhaps I'll be on the T and suddenly a person opens fire.
Instead of seeming crazy, I can now justify my fears of normal-looking people actually being psychopaths.
In Boston, a second-year BU med school student is being charged with murder and robbery. He allegedly murdered a woman in the Boston Marriott Copley Place and robbed another at the Westin Copley Place.
Read the Times article for more info
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/us/22CraigsList.html?_r=1&hp
He looks perfectly "normal," just a 22-year-old. He was engaged to his college girlfriend, and had no criminal record. Either this means he has secretly led a alternate life as a murderer, or he has simply gone crazy. The sad part is he might have been crazy his whole life but nobody knew--he went undiagnosed.
But isn't that how all crazy people are?
Moral of the story: beware of Craigslist.
Instead of seeming crazy, I can now justify my fears of normal-looking people actually being psychopaths.
In Boston, a second-year BU med school student is being charged with murder and robbery. He allegedly murdered a woman in the Boston Marriott Copley Place and robbed another at the Westin Copley Place.
Read the Times article for more info
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/us/22CraigsList.html?_r=1&hp
He looks perfectly "normal," just a 22-year-old. He was engaged to his college girlfriend, and had no criminal record. Either this means he has secretly led a alternate life as a murderer, or he has simply gone crazy. The sad part is he might have been crazy his whole life but nobody knew--he went undiagnosed.
But isn't that how all crazy people are?
Moral of the story: beware of Craigslist.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Truvia
Reading the Times this morning, I discovered an article about artificial sweeteners.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/dining/15sweet.html?_r=1&8dpc
Though I am a splenda afficionado, I have purchased a box of Truvia before. The only difference, to me, is that Truvia packets contain more sweetener than other brands. Otherwise, they taste the same.
More important is the debate about things being "natural": a natural sweetener? Yes, if it is derived from plants, then it has natural roots, but I do not consider the product to therefore be natural because it does not exist in its final form in nature. But who knows. I'm very confused.
I also despise the trend of organic/natural/green things: half the time it's a lie and just another marketing scheme. And why do we keep having to make new kinds of sweeteners? Eventually, we keep finding unhealthy effects in each product.
Here's the solution: use real sugar, but not in huge quantities! Yay!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/dining/15sweet.html?_r=1&8dpc
Though I am a splenda afficionado, I have purchased a box of Truvia before. The only difference, to me, is that Truvia packets contain more sweetener than other brands. Otherwise, they taste the same.
More important is the debate about things being "natural": a natural sweetener? Yes, if it is derived from plants, then it has natural roots, but I do not consider the product to therefore be natural because it does not exist in its final form in nature. But who knows. I'm very confused.
I also despise the trend of organic/natural/green things: half the time it's a lie and just another marketing scheme. And why do we keep having to make new kinds of sweeteners? Eventually, we keep finding unhealthy effects in each product.
Here's the solution: use real sugar, but not in huge quantities! Yay!
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