Dear Grammar Expert,
Q: Please tell me that "efforting" is not a word.
A: Okay. "Efforting" is not a word.
Q: Then why do I keep reading and hearing it everywhere? As in "The government is efforting to solve the issue," "Rescuers are efforting supplies," "The candidate is efforting minority votes." And on TV newscasts, they're always saying, "So, Rob, can you tell us -- oop, we seem to have lost him. And now to the weather while we're efforting to get a visual on Rob."
A: Reporters and writers and newspeople and the government are efforting to cover up the fact of their lazying.
Q: They're too lazy to say "trying"?
A: Keep in mind that they also need to importance themselves while they are lazying.
Q: Dialoguing, journaling, efforting...even my spell check is going crazy! How can we stop this nonsense of making up words?
A: Not to worry. We have a committee solutioning it right now.
2 comments:
This is actually the fault of editors who insist that everything be written in an active voice. Writers and speakers are efforting to follow their editor's instructions.
We're sorry, all editors are on hold at the present moment...we're sorry, all...
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