Wordsmithing
Language is, as they say, a living entity. It’s at its best when new words and phrases are added to adjust to new things and new ideas. And I’m all for it.
With one recent exception: ginormous (from gigantic and enormous).
New words that are combinations of existing words don’t bother me in general. I quite like that type of creativity. And I quite like the bottom up approach of those new words entering the language. But this particular one does bother me. For one simple reason: it’s root words mean the same thing! What did we gain here?
Anyone else have a new word or phrase that particularly rankles?