On Oct 31, 2008, at 12:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You mean I can't say 'attractive' any more? 'Impactive' is a lousy
concoction
that I sullenly accepted long ago because the alternative,
'impactful' seemed
equally ugly and silly besides. 'Impacting' also doesn't do it.
'Striking'
has its virtues, but it connotes a cerebral kind of impact, but
works of the
greatest impact hit home at more than just the cortex. I'm open to
Well, I managed to delete the original message, so I can't quote the
entire passage. But you could have written, "it can have a far greater
impact ...," returning us to those golden days of yesteryear when
"impact" was a noun, not a verb, much less an adjective made from a
verb.
On another forum, I have expressed my great dismay at the
efflorescence of what I call the "uv-uv" formulation, that is, the
penchant for saying something like "I am supportive of" or "it is
acceptive of" [believe me, I've read these very phrases in academic
prose], rather than "I support" or "it accepts" etc. When I read these
things, I am retchive of them.
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Michael Brady
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