Americans, unable or unwilling to shed fat, instead focus on losing letters from words.
The result is a hodgepodge of abbreviated or cleaved descriptors used by both the ins and outs.
You now may live in a hood with other homeys or in a burb with other genxers.
Translated into legitimate English, you live in a neighborhood with others of your ethnicity or in a suburb with other members of Generation X.
Cops now say the perp is an unsub and the vic’s COD is being labbed by CSI.
Translated, police officers say the perpetrator is an unidentified suspect and the victim’s cause of death is being determined by crime-scene investigators.
The vet vet’s vette is rad or, plainly, the veteran veterinarian’s Corvette is radical.
No prob. The Editor has a rep for cred in the language biz. (1 NOVEMBER 2009)
