Nevermind the Bollocks

Has the vigorous American tongue become softened by limp-wristed Britishisms? That's what UConn associate journalism professor Timothy Kenny complains in today's L.A. Times:

In major newspapers and in broadcast media, we "send up" instead of "parody"; our thoughts reach a "full stop" instead of merely ending. A correct answer is "spot on" rather than "dead on." And corporate heads get "sacked" instead of "fired."

More widely used are "went missing" and its close relative, "gone missing." Over the last 10 years, the elite American news media have begun to use the phrases willy-nilly, avoiding the perfectly good American "has disappeared" or "is lost."

Bloody MSM turncoats! Anyway, despite Kenny's royalist assertion that "that's not the way we talk in this country," at the end of the day, it's the language wot incorporates foreign words that kicks arse, full stop. Linguistic protectionism is for the Frogs.