What's the deal with airplane peanuts? (Part MCMVXXGLBTIII)
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Just askin': What sportscaster from what ESL class is responsible for the term "ill-afford?" (Latest offender: CBS's James Brown.)
"Ill-afford" is not a word. It also sounds stupid and doesn't really make sense. In fact, I don't think tacking an adjective on the front of a verb is considered acceptable at all. In about five minutes thinking about this (my time isn't very valuable), the only example I came up with was "hard-boil." And even that, arguably, is just a fake verb derived from consecutive adjectives describing an egg.
"Ill-aford" is stupid, made-up, Japanglish crap that broadcasters use to sound proper or something. It needs to go.
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And you're also not allowed to say, "That's superlative!" as Dan Dierdorf just did.
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