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Society's Projectory
One of my guilty pleasures is football, especially the NFL sort, and in particular the Cincinnati Bengals. By any measure, this is ridiculous. There are so many things I hate about the business side of football, and, well, there are plenty of reasons to think that I could find better ways to spend that portion of my time. That's why it's a guilty pleasure. I even embrace this to the extent that I participate in an online message board discussing the team and football more generally.
Earlier today, one of the regular posters--a guy I like, I should add--had the weird misuage "projectory" for "trajectory," which naturally caused us all to ignore the point he was making and begin a discussion about the errors of grammar that drive us nuts. There, I proposed a solution which, I'm sure, will appeal to some people (not necessarily my readers or any readers, but that's beside the point). Here, for your edification, is my solution to this growing problem:
Look guys, irregardless of the notoriety of such grammatical mistakes, our culture's projectory suggests to me that those us of who know better just have to except these usages, irregardless of how adverse we are to them ourselves. We can't assure (or do I mean insure?) that others will use words correctly--some people are just going to flaunt the rules of grammar no matter how often we correct them--so its clear that you and me have to lie down our gripes and translocate these words into what that person actually intense. It would be nice if schools had a more strict regiment of grammatical studies--and I could site many that do good, or at least better then the average, though such are mostly things of the passed--but well just have two make the best of a bad situational.
Have a great weekend!