Exasturbated (autocorrect tried to change that) is a good one! Thank goodness for gardens indeed. I ran out of front yard, now I'm working on the unmaintained street median in front of the house. It's going to become an unholy mix of USA Pacific Coast bulbs and shrubs and South African geophytes (with touches of other Mediterranean climates). Thank you to the BXs, member offers, and OK boxes of geophytes off eBay, for what I hope will be at least a good winter/spring show. Meanwhile, the aroids are starting to go dormant very very unevenly, but so far at least, no out of season blooms. Robert On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 9:22 AM Cody H via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > Hahaha! Exasturbated is definitely a new one for me. > > I believe there are branches of study within the field of linguistics > dedicated specifically to understanding how words and lexicons change over > time—an important, natural, and inevitable process that contributes to the > development of language diversity. So I try to channel my inner > dispassionate linguist every time I hear someone who I otherwise wish to > respect say “fustrated” or “nukular” in a non-ironic way. > > I think “exasturbated” is kind of a fun one though, as word abominations > go. > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 9:01 AM Tim Eck via pbs < > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > > > You got it! > > > > Somehow, my mind wouldn't go there. > > > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 11:56 AM Kipp McMichael via pbs < > > > > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > > exasturbated: the feeling, during times of pandemic and social > > distancing, > > > > > that you've done everything you can to entertain to yourself and yet > you > > > > > are still bored. > > > > > > > > > > Thank goodness for backyard gardens! > > > > > -|Kipp > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > > From: pbs <pbs-bounces@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> on behalf of > Robert > > > > > Lauf via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > > > > > Sent: Friday, September 18, 2020 8:22 AM > > > > > To: Tim Eck via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > > > > > Cc: Robert Lauf <boblauf@att.net> > > > > > Subject: Re: [pbs] Additions to the lexicon > > > > > > > > > > Now it we could only get TV news readers to stop adding -ing to the end > > of > > > > > every verb! What morons. It's no wonder kids today are illiterate. > > > > > Bob > > > > > On Friday, September 18, 2020, 11:14:10 AM EDT, Tim Eck via pbs < > > > > > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Jane said: > > > > > "The second new word I learned today is something that we on the > Pacific > > > > > coast are all yearning for at this moment: "petrichor," the fragrance > of > > > > > sun-baked earth when it is first struck by rain." > > > > > > > > > > I had been familiar with "petrichor" already, though back east we > mostly > > > > > don't get much sunbaked earth and have to rely on sunbaked boulders > since > > > > > they bake a lot quicker. > > > > > A word that I recently enjoyed learning was "mondegreen", named for > Lady > > > > > Mondegreen, much regaled in Scottish ballads. > > > > > But as uplifting as it is to learn a new word, I find it increasingly > > > > > frustrating to hear perfectly good old words being confounded and > > macerated > > > > > on the airwaves. I am begrudgingly accepting that "death spiral" isn't > > > > > just for airplanes anymore, as "spiralling out of control" becomes a > > > > > mandatory phrase in every broadcast and that "epicenters" aren't just > for > > > > > earthquakes anymore. (By the way, isn't the west coast about due? > > Maybe a > > > > > "fire sharknado"?) > > > > > But lately as so many situations are being "exacerbated", I keep > hearing > > > > > PBS commentators confounding it with "exasperated" and have begun > > shouting > > > > > at my radio on a regular basis. As a child I revered Walter Cronkite > and > > > > > other well educated and well spoken commentators and personalities like > > > > > Dorothy Parker and Bennett Cerf. But just the other day I heard > someone > > on > > > > > public radio say "exasturbated" for "exacerbated". 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