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[wickedflea]

Mom and I just got back from seeing Radio Golf at the Yale Rep. Excellent, excellent stuff. It felt so cool to be seeing the premiere of such a major playwright's work.

Oh yeah, minor language thing: I had a stagecraft professor in college who insisted on spelling the name of one of his courses "playwrighting." I thought he was just retarded, as he also pronounced the word "aprocryphal" as "aah-poe-CREE-phul" and the word "exponentially" as "expotentially." But our usher tonight had a nametag that read, "Allison ______ '07, Playwrighting."

Stop the madness. Yes, "playwright" is the noun. "Playwriting" is the verb. RECOGNIZE.

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[buscemi.livejournal.com]

There was some annoying commercial a while back with the slogan, "The new way to office." Grr.

"Hey, everybody! Let's office! Woooo!"

Somehow, I don't think that would catch on.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I hate that kind of thing. The worst one I ever heard, I think, was "fellowship." It's apparently not a new usage, but it still makes me cringe. "Y'all come on down to the church and fellowship with us!"

[genepool23.livejournal.com]

That was Kinko's. It's one of the reasons I quit my job there. Any company who thinks they deserve the power to change a noun into a verb is beyond help.