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My cell buzzed on the table, next to an obnoxiously large carabineer-turned-keyholder that said, in words too small to read, For Mountaineering Use Only as if the stocky red and gray 'biner with an extra clip on the back didnt get the message across. I let the buzzing go on long enough to manifest a raised eyebrow on a neatly-suited businessman at the next table before I lazily reached up and clicked on my Bluetooth. I was in a crowded cafe in the Little Italy section of San Diego, watching the tourists go by while I enjoyed a double espresso. I hate it when people call it eX-spresso. Its one thing when a person does something incorrectly because its complicated, like finding a cure for impotence for instance. Its another thing altogether when they mess up something as simple as a word that they see printed everywhere. People have become so lazy, they dont even see the letter s in the beginning of the word. They just slide right past it like that thing from Carnegie-Mellon University where all the words are misspelled but you can read it anyway as long as the first and last letters are correct.

EX-spresso people are just one of the many things that bother me on a daily basis. Another is when people use the word irregardless, when they mean to say, simply, regardless. A testimony to the limp-wristed sheeple we Americans have become, some weasel at Websters Dictionary included irregardless in the dictionary as an alternate for regardless, capitulating to the illiterate and imprecise. I discovered this once while trying to express my displeasure to someone when there was a dictionary nearby. God knows, we wouldnt want someone to learn from their mistakes.

Im disgusted at Webster as I answer the phone,

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