Getting Under My Skin, A Handy Guide (part 1)

If you’ve been paying attention, you might remember that sometime last week, someone I know used the term “derogate” to mean “subtract” instead of it’s more standard “to annul a law”. And when I say “more standard” note that as far as I can tell there’s no possible way it means “subtract.” I think they meant “degrade”, but even that isn’t as clear. “Reduce by one” would be sufficient.

Anyway, it’s Sunday, and I’m still thinking about it.

On the plus side, my obsessive repetition of “Stray Cat Strut” has calmed down.

Anyway, the how to portion:

1. Pick a rarely used word that I don’t know.
2. Use it incorrectly.
3. Force me to look it up in two or three sources.
4. All this should happen right before we won’t see each other for a few days so I can get really OCD about it.

Eh voila — you have now gotten under my skin.