Grammar choice that cheeses me off

[bktheirregular]

OK, is it internally-retentive of me to get my hackles up every time I see someone use the word "normalcy"? People, there's a perfecly good English word that means the same thing.

Normality.

Normality.

I'm not even talking fanfic. I'm talking about people, public figures, who, one assumes (though not safely these days, considering the mental caliber of the current Emperor), have some education and grounding in the language.

Nor-ma-li-ty. Come on, it's only one more frelling syllable...

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[lizbetann]

Just for you, as I was HTMLing an Angel fic to go up at the Angel Annex, I changed Normalcy to Normality. :)

eep!

[bktheirregular]

I was actually ranting about someone using the word on ESPN.com ... you know I wasn't hollering at you, right? I didn't even realize ...

...anyway, according to dictionary.com, the word appears to have finally entered the language. Normalcy (n): normality.

*sigh*

I'm becoming an old man, I think. I got the gray hair, the music I remember as cutting-edge is showing up on the oldies station, I've lost touch with the kids' music, and now I'm complaining about the deterioration of the English language.

*another sigh*

Sorry 'bout that, Elizabeth...

Re: eep!

[lizbetann]

I was actually ranting about someone using the word on ESPN.com ... you know I wasn't hollering at you, right? I didn't even realize ...
...anyway, according to dictionary.com, the word appears to have finally entered the language. Normalcy (n): normality.
*sigh*

I'm sorry! I wasn't complaining, and it amused me that as I was going through the story, I saw the word! I didn't think you were trashing me.

I'm becoming an old man, I think. I got the gray hair, the music I remember as cutting-edge is showing up on the oldies station, I've lost touch with the kids' music, and now I'm complaining about the deterioration of the English language.
*another sigh*
Sorry 'bout that, Elizabeth...

Way totally not your bad. You keep all your brain power for the Bar, you hear?

Lizbet, who is sorry she came off sounding complainy

We have achieved a Reality Level of 1 to 1.

[butterflykiki.livejournal.com]

We have normality. Repeat, we have normality. Anything you can't deal with is therefore your own problem." - Trillian, HHGTTG

I know it's a peeve, Iknow normalcy is a word now, but it's a peeve I share with you: hate the word. It's stupid. It's harder to say. It's silly.

But English is, of course, a dynamic, aerobicizing language, and sometimes it stretches in stupid ways. Never mind that we think it looks very odd with its ankle behind its ear, it just *has* to prove it can do that.

*pats* for BK feeling-like-a-geezer