Pedantry, or, Skitting the Trump Fantastic

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“Donald Trump is poised to become the first American in history to headline a presidential inauguration and payoff the victims of an allegedly fraudulent scam in the same week.”

―Steve Benen

It seems pedantic enough to wonder if “payoff” really should be one word in this particular usage. As a compound word, we are more accustomed to a noun, that something is a payoff, while the verb remains two words, to pay off.

Never mind. Compared to the obvious point, ossification creates a risk of spilling beer on skittles far too great to warrant boning the point like that.

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Image note: Donald Trump awaits his introduction at the 2005 launch of Trump University. (Detail of photo by Bebeto Matthews/Associated Press)

Benen, Steve. “Details emerge on ‘Trump University’ settlement”. msnbc. 21 December 2016.

The Bug Side of the Force

Believe it or not, this one doesn’t actually go downhill from here. Adam pulls it out; it gets better―if, you know, better is a word used here to mean mildly less creepy.

Okay, that’s not fair. Considerably less creepy.

What? This is Star Wars we’re talking about, here.

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Image note: Kids ― Detail of Bug Martini by Adam Huber, 14 December 2015.