The "Like" epidemic

[Herman]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

My personal peeve: 'Impact' is not a verb. The plane did not 'impact' the ground. Global warming does not 'impact' life on Earth. It may have an impact, but it 'affects' life on Earth.

You can try to "out-dumb" the dummies by really overdoing it.

When he abuses the language like that, but repeat it back to him even more grossly absurd than the way he used it.

If he says, "The plane did not 'impact' the ground."

You can ask, "So, you say that the plane did not 'impactualize' the ground?"

Of course, he'll correct you and say it isn't a word. Whereby, you can tell him the same with his use of 'impact'.