The largely ESPN-induced hysteria over Brett Favre's hypothetical return to the game is bad enough to drive copy editors to madness, or at least to hasty typing.
You know, as oversaturated as ESPN's TMZ-like slavering over this story has been, "rediculous" seems perfectly appropriate. Webster's, take note of the new verbiage:
Rediculous: (re/dic/you/lus) adj., definition.: artificially overplayed due to ESPN saturation and obsession with demographics driving coverage. Root: Internet based corruption from Latin ridiculo.
Used in a sentence: "The Favre retirement story is almost as constructed as the Kobe/Shaq story.
At least they're helping us expand the English language one fake word at a time. Your seventh-grade English teacher says thank you, World Wide Leader.
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I was always taught “People in glass houses, shouldn’t throw stones.”
by The Great Snook on Jul 15, 2008 2:19 PM EDT reply actions
That’s just atroceous
by npcPronk29 on Jul 15, 2008 2:21 PM EDT reply actions
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