No, Seriously

It’s too soon to have another word of the week, but it’s never too early to randomly introduce the temporary category of “phrase of the week”.

We’ll make it a memorial to my Grandfather Alfred/Fritz “For Crying Out Tears” Furst. How is it that he had two first names anyway? I’ve never understood that.

1) do violence: One might say, “I’d go on a four day coke binge, but it’d certainly do violence to my plans to become pope.” The phrase is used to link a cause with a negative effect, especially when that effect is a concept. One does violence against ideas more often than he does violence to corporeal entities.

2) begrudge the privelege: As in, “I have a towel if you want to borrow it, though I wouldn’t want to begrudge you the privelege of wandering around the building naked and wet”, or, more recently, “I wouldn’t want to begrudge you the privelege of roasting chestnuts on an open fire when it’s 76 degrees outside.” Used almost exclusively in a sarcastic tone, this phrase can take either privelege or opportunity as its main predicate and is used to contrast a sensible alternative with a foppish null hypothesis.

I could use all of these at work with something such as:
Identifying the pathology might begrudge me the opportunity of spinning my wheels for the next three months until they finally fire me, but it would undoubtedly do violence to my edict to not break the record for schematic RNs.

An RN is a revision notice. I’m already up to revD with revE in the works. If I had to tender a guess, I’d say I’ll hit H before all is said and done. If I make it much past that, you can watch for the 4 day coke binge, now that’s good blog material.

Other language based goals:
1) Use “voraciously” to describe an activity other than reading. Poor voraciously has been typecast.

2) Use “profusely” to describe something other than fluid flow or thanksgiving. People always bleed profusely and they offer thanks profusely, but the word is capable of so much more.

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