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From Time, Mark Halperin:
3. The national press will be obsessed with the story for days and days
to come, with no downside for Obama; the local press coverage when
Kennedy travels for Obama will be ginormous.
Yes, that's right. He actually used the word "ginormous." For real. It's right there, in print, in an internationally recognized news publication.
Let's just be blunt here: he sounds like a fifth grader saying that. And because of it, I can't take anything else he says in that article seriously.
I don't really follow his column. I just happened upon it because there was a link to it on the front page of CNN (!). Maybe it's technically a blog, I don't really care. Whatever format he's writing in, how can he expect people to respect his opinion when he has to resort to using made-up words to get his opinion across? Is it some sort of effort to appeal to the youth? Is he trying to be COOL?
Get real, Mark. Act like a professional. Write like you like, graduated from like, the fifth grade.
Readers have left 7 comments.  1. SullyHey, Mullet, If my understanding is correct, "ginormous" was recently added as a real word to the Merriam Webster. I remember seeing it in the list of new words for 2007 (maybe 2006). Can someone confirm? I did a little research and it's actually on M-W's page as a "word not in a dictionary." Go figure. http://www.m-w.com/info/favorite.htm 2. ShinDig1 3. swesson I hate it when journalisms and TV announcers say, "Me and Bob went to the store." Unacceptable. How hard is it to say, "Bob and I"? 4. ChristopherJG What about, "You are taller than me." Totally wrong. 5. iwantamullet Oh, it's in the dictionary. So obviously it must acceptable language for a professional journalist.
You know what else is in the dictionary? "Poopy". Look it up. In the dictionary does not equal intelligent use of English. 6. bones I agree that ginormous does sound kind of dumb. I'm not so against the kind of grammar mistakes that swesson points out. It just seems like an evolution of the language. but ginormous sounds like baby talk. 7. East Bun Yes. baby talk. it's like people who say, guesstimate. |
