Very boolean
Posted on March 27th, 2004 by Brian Corbino
It really drives me nuts when people mangle our language. Ok, let’s forget for a moment that the specific incident that spawned this rant involves mangling not one, but two languages, but we can go from there.
Why do people insist on adding modifiers to BOOLEAN ADJECTIVES?!
Al Dente – Italian for “to the tooth”. Subjective? Yes. But boolean. Something either is, or is not, al dente. Yet I heard a woman state quite happily “These beans are very al dente”. That’s like being very perfect, or very on. AAAAIGH!
And my mother wonders why I drink…