Language can be difficult to withhold on top of when we have readers spread across the continentsIn the small gaps in the thicket of tall thumping complaints,the smaller questions poke through – less weighty perhaps but no less important to those who demand them. Many simply seek an answer rather than a published correction; many are approximately the employ, or misuse, or of language and individual words.
The employ of “freight as a verb is something I had barely seen in the columns of the Guardian until this year,when it seemed to catch on as in this film review published on 20 May: “Youth has a wan eloquence and elegance, though freighted with sentimentality and a strangely unearned and uninteresting macho-geriatric regret for lost time, and lost film projects,lost love and all those beautiful women that you never got to sleep with.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com