Monday, January 22, 2007

PC-speak of the Day: 2007-01-22

The tendency over the last decade or two for the Painfully Correct to refer to every granfalloon as a "community" usually makes me don my waffle-stompers and look menacingly at puppies.

Not today, though:

… zombies (aka the "non-living community") … (source [S$])

Update:
2007-01-23 09:27

This just in, from Natalie Angier's entertaining article on time in today's NYT:

Far more action is going on below the surface, in the subatomic community.

10 comments:

Jinnet said...

the online librarian contingent refers to itself as the "biblioblogosphere," for what that's worth. :)

bjkeefe said...

I like it! I would also like the more streamlined "bibliogosphere."

Anonymous said...

Looking up granfalloon at Dictionary.com you get this example of usage:

To study a granfalloon you take a toy balloon and remove the outer skin.

Unknown said...

Your use of "granfalloon" in the post reminds me of a question I've been meaning to ask you: Have you read Kurt Vonnegut? Do you have an opinion of him?

Unknown said...

Oops, I posted that as "Verso" by mistake. I usually post here as Twin.

bjkeefe said...

Yes I have and yes I do: KV has long been one of my favorites.

Unknown said...

Same here. Not to get all nerdy or anything, but do you have a favorite, or favorites, among his books?

bjkeefe said...

If I had to pick one, I think it would be God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. But I'd hate to have to pick just one. Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, The Sirens of Titan, and Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons are all right up there, too.

What about you?

Unknown said...

Hard to say, but I guess I would pick Galapagos, Hocus Pocus, Slapstick, or the first of his books I ever read, Breakfast of Champions. It's one of those things where it seems whichever one I read last is my favorite.

bjkeefe said...

That's a good way of putting it. I think the only thing that he's written that I didn't love was Player Piano.

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