Wednesday, September 7, 2022

A metastasized word lately:

"Bandwidth."

I'd noticed that I'd begun using it myself lately to say that I don't have the time or energy to take something on, and then I came across it being used in a magazine article and maybe like one other place.

You also see people using the word "kerfuffle" a lot now lately, though that's been going on for a few years.  I still remember seeing it in a freshman paper back when I taught freshman writing, and one student complimented another on using it, in a peer-review feedback session that I was running.

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