April 12, 2004

The proof has left the pudding

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Apparently, my favorite saying is wrong. "The proof is in the pudding" is supposed to be, "the proof of the pudding is in the eating." According to some guy named John Powers, anyway.

And I have been misusing the word livid. (And did I just misuse "apparently?")

The article's interesting, but one wonders if it's really sort of pointless to carp about the language changing and new words and definitions coming into play. The goal of language should not be navigating around a lot of rules. Livid's first definition -- one I've never heard -- is "black and blue." I've always used it to mean angry, which is the third definition. But is it really bad that it has multiple meanings now? Who cares?

I think that we should be rational here and pound misusages only when they actually cause problems. I don't see that using livid to mean angry is wrong, because it could still mean black and blue. I can't stand it, however, when people mix up infer and imply, because that can actually lead to confusion. And I can't stand that awesome has no meaning any more, because it was a great word, and was the only word that meant exactly that.

As for "the proof is in the pudding," it is just a lot more folksy than Powers' version. I'm all for language having a better flow, and the saying just goes better like that. Heaven forbid that we should all end up sounding like classist Victorian grammar Nazis.

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