Friday, June 12, 2009

A Public Service Announcement: Beware of SUSPICINOUNS

Sometime in the past two weeks and during one of my epic gchat conversations, I stumbled across a grouping of nouns that I am none too pleased with - SUSPICINOUNS. Suspicinouns are the shady nouns that like to think they are better than the rest because they confuse you and are often found within sentences with incorrect grammar. Don't be surprised if you stumble across a suspicinoun chilling in a dangling participle or spurring on a run on sentence. Suspicinouns I've seen so far today:

Swain (from iGoogle's word of the day)
iGoogle (google masquerading as a product of Mac)
Doodad (from my brain, wandering around trying to find a verb to pair up with - it settled on nestled ... could this be a suspiciverb!?!)

I just want everyone to be careful out there and keep your eyes peeled for any noun that may look a little out of place or odd. These are dangerous times we are living in. Words are morphing at frightening rates, need I remind you how short forms and acronyms such as lol, brb, rofl, and plpyt (okay I made up the last one) are taking over the English language!? And I am sure we are all aware of the alarming spike in personal word creation: Bootylicious, Ridonkulous, Refrickendiculous to name but a few. I really think they should air School House Rock again. My generation and those that follow have completely missed out on this wonderful teaching tool which is almost good as Telefrancais! This kind of proactive education could prevent children and adults alike from falling prey to the devious suspicinouns lurking on every page of every book ....

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