Linguistic Abuse Quotes

There are many bad things in this world of ours, but the use of the word 'monetize' has to rank high among them. Also, 'incentivize.' Actually, all the '-ize' words, like 'contextualize' and 'utilize' and 'prioritize.' And - this is almost too horrible to type - 'juniorize.'

"Family" this and "family" that. If I had a family I'd be furious that moral busybodies are taking the perfectly good word family and using it as a code for censorship the same way "states' rights" was used to disguise racism in the mid-sixties.

Among the many evils which prevail under the sun, the abuse of words is not the least considerable. By the influence of time, and the perversion of fashion, the plainest and most unequivocal may be so altered, as to have a meaning assigned them almost diametrically opposite to their original signification.

The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil.

Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means.

I don't like to use 'gourmet' because it has become so overused and abused.

we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.

I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.