March 15 2013
There is hardly a day goes by that I don’t hear some NPR announcer mangle our language. And lord knows with even The New Yorker committing syntactical harakiri w every issue, we are well aware of not being in Kansas anymore. But this latest malapropism lowers (raises) the dumb-bar to a new level. In a story about the Higges-Boson (sp?) particle, our intrepid mental midget asserted that “physicists are gnashing at their teeth.” To quote SNL: “really?”