Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
… while I know I should probably be more generous and tolerant, let’s be honest: I tend to flip the bozo bit, more or less permanently, on anyone who lets one of these slip in my presence.
A BRIC to the head: Adam Greenfield testifies on the inanity of bad english, and specifically “BRIC” (Brazil, Russia, India, People’s Republic of China).
More:
“Remember: the complaint is not just that that using “BRIC” makes you sound like a tool, although that is certainly the case. And it’s not even that, unless you happen to be participating in a discussion of projective macroeconomics, the abbreviation actually and measurably makes you dumber for using it. It’s that the term kills thought dead in everything it touches.”
