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Sunday, 27 January 2019

Sunday Rest: lamestream. Word Not To Use Today.

Is this thing you're so keen on the very most newfangled craze? 

Is it so much the newfangled craze that hardly anyone's even heard of it?

Is it slightly wacky, perhaps even approaching hilarious, just a bit transgressive, and possibly reaching the heights of totes bizarre?

Is it the sort of thing that anyone old just won't, like, get?

Yes, yes, yes, and yes?

Ah. 

Now I understand why you're so ready to dismiss things that are published by mainstream sources as lamestream.

And I'm sorry to say it seems to be largely because you're an idiot.

Still, never mind. People usually grow out of it.

Word Not To Use Today: lamestream. The Old English form of lame was lama. The Old English form of stream was stream.


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