There was a time in this country when retailers held \u201csales.\u201d There are no more \u201csales.\u201d There are \u201cevents.\u201d I do not know where the sales went, possibly to visit grandma and got eaten by a big bad wolf. I believe it happened at about the same time \u201crobust\u201d replaced \u201cstrong\u201d and \u201cimprove\u201d gave way to \u201cenhance.\u201d<\/p>\n
It offends my ears to see \u201cLabor Day Event\u201d in a newspaper or television ad. It sounds like the reference should be to a track meet. I have robust objections to such abusive language. The language could be greatly enhanced if fewer euphemisms were used by advertisers. I might even find closure. And why, \u201cfind closure\u201d? It\u2019s not as though I lost it. Moreover, \u00a0\u00a0if there is closure, was it preceded by openure? Surely openure precedes closure just as cases opened are then closed, thus resulting in open and closure cases, which were once open and shut. But one cannot find closure when already shut. That would be \u201cshuture,\u201d as in shuture face.<\/p>\n
There once was a very good word used before \u201cclosure\u201d reared its offensive head. It was used well and often, with resolve and often with resolution. If only we could return to those golden days of yesteryear. Or is it yesterure?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There was a time in this country when retailers held \u201csales.\u201d There are no more \u201csales.\u201d There are \u201cevents.\u201d I do not know where the sales went, possibly to visit grandma and got eaten by a big bad wolf. I believe it happened at about the same time \u201crobust\u201d replaced \u201cstrong\u201d and \u201cimprove\u201d gave way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1168,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}