Sometimes it's a pleasure to waste your breath and ranting about the decay of the English language is as good an arena for venting as any other.
Recently I've been seeing statements such as 'The Israeli facemask that everybody is talking about' and my first reaction is 'Really?' Everybody? The total population of the world? In all probability this extravagant word could be replaced by 'a very few' or even 'nobody'.
Another bugbear is the use of 'strictly'. Surely if something is private, it is private - you don't go there. So what additional level of privacy does 'strictly, add, Do you get molested by large dogs or thrashed with a birch cane, rather than welcomed with tea and a cream scone - just more linguistic nonsense.
So everybody (strictly Engish-speaking everybody only), STOP IT!
The image is not relevant to the above whinge; it's a tall man and a bush like a horse.
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