Dark Heart
by Birdwell
4/14/03

Exactly what is a warmongering peacenik? Well one it's an oxymoron and it's an example of one of my pet peaves.

warmonger - One who advocates or attempts to stir up war. peacenik - A political activist who publicly opposes war, a particular war, or the proliferation of weapons; a pacifist. That being said one of my pet peaves is incorrect word use. I hate it when people try to sound intelligent by using intelligent "sounding" words. That or they are just plain ignorant to what the word means or when it should be used. It makes my skin crawl. Rarely though to I tell people when this happens--don't want to sound pretensious. (I can be pretensious here because this is my blog)

'Course it's even worse when people try to insult you with incorrect diction. (BTW the above example was taken from an insult tossed at a radio talk show host I listened to on Saturday). It just shows how dumb they really are.

Disclaimer - I am in no way meaning to be insulting to any one...it's just a pet peave...we all have them.

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