The Problem with Avuncular

 I remember watching Alex Jones and they started discussing the Bill of Rights and they started referring to the rights as in-a-leanable

What the heck I thought, clearly the concept was meant to come from alien as to say we could not become alienated from our rights that's the pronunciation was completely wrong yet within a few days everyone was saying it the incorrect way as if because they don't read and they don't speak they'll come across a word they've only seen perhaps on a 30 words in a month calendar I don't really know how to say it or use it. 

Well it's happened again as it often does and you realize that once people get away from grammar checkers and spelling checkers they're basically functional illiterates. The context of this was the killing of the great ruler of Iran Khomeini. I noticed on the news show they refer to him as avuncular. It's quite an odd way to describe this menacing scary beast. It was hardly like an uncle at all more like a hitman who had killed your grandfather and now had shown up at your house to finish up the job. Yet sure as sin, all the newscasters began using this word to describe him. Do they know what it means I thought? It was another case of not really understanding a word but because of vidconstinian language games it propagating on and on as if people seem to understand what it was what the first person who ever did was utterly correct and everyone had copied them down the line. 

Here is a recent example from an article on scientists discovering plastics which will degrade in the ocean. 

Tests showed that the new plastic would start to break down within hours when placed in slat water

Does everyone speaking incorrect does cause problems for me I like to use the speech to text feature but I'm constantly correcting words because my language is not common and the next word in the sentence is not the stupid common word no I actually meant what I said I'm being quite specific and it really should not screw up on it except it's trying to fit me into a sentence that it has seen before and the only sentences it has ever seen and trained on are quite stupid people sentences. So it does affect me. Oh by the way that word above is supposed to be fit against Indian. No, not that... (Typing now) Wittgensteinian. 

So please stop calling a scary people avuncular, and please heat your language.  No not heat my language the word I'm trying to say is heed. That's it I'm going back to fountain pens and papyrus I can't take this modern world anymore. 

And other news my fantastic Oracle. No. Phantasmagorical children's book "The House of Brevard" it's going through reviews now. It's quite short, really a short story in truth, at only 50 pages. I find the older I get the shorter everything becomes the quicker I just want to hit the meaning and give the user an experience. I think of Heidegger saucing it up after lectures and getting drunk as a skunk and blathering on for 300 pages about d a s e i n. Now we have the internet, we have children with the attention span of goldfish or worse, I do not think anyone will read 800 page books anymore best to keep them under 100 and stories under 50. No one will watch them until they get converted to a movie Waze. Anyways. Grrrrr.