[Magdalen] Invites

Marion Thompson marionwhitevale at gmail.com
Sun Mar 13 13:12:03 UTC 2016


My current irritant is use of the word 'fulsome'.  Instead of  'he gave 
a full report', they say 'he gave a fulsome report', which is not the 
same thing at all!  It might be both a full and fulsome report, but you 
know what I mean.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 3/13/2016 9:02 AM, Scott Knitter wrote:
> invitation has become invite
>
> request has become ask ("What's your ask?")
>
> lend has become loan ("I loaned him $50")
>
> depressing
>
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 7:38 AM, Marion Thompson
> <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Along with so many others.
>>
>> Marion, a pilgrim
>>
>>
>> On 3/13/2016 5:38 AM, Allan Carr wrote:
>>> "Apple has officially sent out invites for an event next week . . ."
>>>
>>> http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/4-inch-iphone-se-to-launch-on-21-march-everything-we-know-so-far-303755.html
>>>
>>> Is the word invitation now obsolete?
>>>
>>> Just wondering.
>>>
>
>



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