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January 4, 2006
Graduated college?
Xian (x-pollen) noted a language pet peeve about the new phrase touching bases as opposed to touching base. To jump on that bandwagon, my all time language pet peeve is the change of graduated from (high school, college, reform school, whatever) to graduated (college, high school, kindergarten). To me the change suggests that the person graduated their institution and sent it on to another place as opposed to having the institution graduate them and send them along their merry way. Besides, what’s the big deal about adding that one extra word from into a sentence anyway. Is it just a reflection of our need to have shorthand for everything? or rather a reflection of the text messaging world where all language is being compressed into phonetically written phrases?
As a kid riding the NYC subway system, there used to be an add for a secretarial school (ok now I’m really dating myself-secretarial school! what’s that?) written in shorthand. It said something along the lines of (I didn’t go to secretarial school, I graduate college so I don’t know secretarial shorthand) “if u cn rd ths” then something about how you could make good money being a secretary. Ok, ok the official term now is Administrative Assistant. But back in the day it was secretary. Or was that secretery? Hmm….
Posted by maeve921 at January 4, 2006 12:56 PM
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