Originally Posted by
rsvman
Listening to NPR on the way home from work yesterday I heard two "words" that I found amusing and/or annoying.
The first was "event-ize." This was in a segment about live television shows and why they are becoming more popular. Apparently the producers want to make the tv show on a particular night into an "event." Therefore, they want to "event-ize" the episode. Yuck!
Now I'm blanking on what the second one was! Dang it. If it comes to me later, I'll come back and post it. It was good. Sorry about this turning into the proverbial "I'll tell you tomorrow" post.
OK, I remember it now. The guy said "monumentous," which I guess is an amalgamation of "monumental" and "momentous"? I've certainly never heard anyone say this before, and I didn't expect somebody to say it on NPR, but there it is.
For what it's worth, I actually kind of liked "monumentous," while I really HATED "event-ize."
"We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." --M. Proust