There are some words being used a lot lately, words which I feel could benefit from a time-out. You know, “Go to your room, word. We’ll let you out after we’ve gratefully forgotten they way you’re being used and overused.”<\/p>\n
Today, how about the word “patriot”? Everybody’s shouting it out, hammering away with it, everybody’s claiming to be<\/em> it.<\/p>\n Maybe this fact I picked up from Harper’s Weekly Review can be employed to shove our application of the word into hiatus.<\/p>\n The Chinese government planned to restrict political candidates in Hong Kong to those it deems \u201cpatriots.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are some words being used a lot lately, words which I feel could benefit from a time-out. You know, “Go to your room, word. We’ll let you out after we’ve gratefully forgotten they way you’re being used and overused.” … Continue reading