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The Wall Street Journal runs a front-page feature on an emerging force in Asian journalism, China's weekly Southern Weekend . The paper started out entertainment-oriented but under the leadership of its Western-oriented and literate editor, it has grown in circulation and profitability as it moved from celebrity news and salacious scandals to real investigative reporting.
I am prejudiced, I know, but while I find the use of impact as a verb an interesting linguistic development, I consider it execrable style for literate speakers and (especially) writers; yet it appears in Rose's Preface, where one can also find a transitive use for coruscate ( OED2e please note).
Until a decade or so ago it was spelt brahmin , which is now given as an alternate spelling, and has survived in such expressions of common occurrence as Boston Brahmins . While every literate American may not be familiar with the expression, those who are will know that a Boston Brahmin refers to the aristocrats or first families of Boston such as the Cabots and the Lodges.
We can expect to read more of such phonetic errors since even highly literate and careful writers will sometimes make such mistakes and occasionally proofread in haste, as well, though if it is pointed out, they will always understand what the error is.
Still, because these borrowed, aberrant words represent relatively rare infractions of the time-honored rules of grammar, I doubt that matters will ever reach the point where literate Greeks would be driven to gnashing of teeth and tearing of hair by Greek equivalents of barbarisms such as to you and I and Us teachers are ....
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