Journalism in the age of twitter

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More absurd abuse of English

The faster people get 'smart' without an adequate education, the stupider their discourse becomes - and nowhere is this degeneration more noticeable than in the way they mangle a great language. I have remarked on this again and again on this blog and the other one: see, for instance, this post. 

Some of the latest abuses are as follows. I just read on a newfangled news website that it is the 'ask' of many shareholders whether the errant CEO will be punished or not. The ask, not the question or query. Likewise, people send one another 'invites' these days,  not invitations, and football teams have great 'wins', not victories: far too many people have forgotten, or have never been taught, that 'win'  and 'invite' and 'ask' are verbs, not nouns. When morons serve as schoolteachers, this is the type of 'educated' adults you get...

The government of India, in its zeal to create a lot of jobs, has helped to create (or at least popularize) another such wretched new pseudo-word: skilling. They are setting up institutions galore to 'skill' young Indians and make them job- (or business-) worthy. Not teach them skills, mind you, but 'skill' them. Say it aloud - 'I am going to skill you'. If it doesn't sound weird and sick, you are part of the stupid smart set.