So what words make you laugh/cry/whatever at their misuse changing their meaning? Slang need not apply. I used to rage at people/infotainment outlets using "decimate" when they meant "annihilate". I ...

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." --Inigo Montoya, "The Princess Bride" It would be easy to say that everything I ever needed to know I learned from "The ...

To quote Inigo Montoya: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means” For decades, journalists, economists, politicians and central bankers have said that the U.S.

You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means. The word in question is “collusion,” which Stephen A. Smith invoked when claiming NFL owners conspired in allowing Shedeur ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Transformation is often a buzzword—something that is intended to get people excited and to ...

There'a a running gag in the movie "The Princess Bride" in which the character Vizzini, the self-proclaimed smartest member of a band of bandits, says "inconceivable" every time someone accomplishes a ...

And hey, you have at least some leverage to correct such mistakes. I have to silently ignore them, as they are not core to my job. I only get to correct people when doing so is materially relevant to ...

There’s a worrying trend here, and it’s not complacency. Rather, it’s the use of the term “tail risk” to mean “priced-in and foreseeable euro crisis”. Last year, everybody was worried that Greece ...