People who buy their college degrees online and then try to use polysyllabic words in memos, but without knowing how the words are used in context, use them incorrectly, are ludicrous in the extreme. Perhaps they looked them up in the dictionary; maybe they consulted a thesaurus. Whatever the source, the absurd sentences that result are hilarious--and confusing.

And offensive to those of us who do know what the words mean, and how to use them correctly. We love words, the written language, and ignorant misuse is an affront.

So I'm a language snob. Bite me.