»In which we get all huffy about the vocabulary

A list of pompous-ass (hyphen mine) words, including citations and deconstruction. The site's author rails against these words, suggesting that they are the enemy: we should know them, and never use them. An example:

Word: in medias res

Synonymous with: (Latin) In the middle of things: used esp. of a narrative that opens in the middle rather than at the chronological beginning.

Example: Time magazine took care of it in its review of installment 2 of Lord of the Rings. From http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101021202/story.html:

It begins in medias res, as though you had just stepped out for a few seconds to get more popcorn. If you didn't see last year's The Fellowship of the Ring, Peter Jackson, the trilogy's wizardly director, isn't about to cut you any slack.

Even though it's clear enough in context, it could have been removed entirely with no loss of meaning. Having it in there broke up the flow at the very beginning of the article because I stopped to wonder "what is that?!"

Makes me wonder what my very-expensive liberal-arts education was for, if not to read bloody Time bloody magazine. Oh, yes, it's for reading comics online.

Smartass.

For my part, I consider certain contemporary notions disrespectful to, inconsiderate of, or resulting from a misunderstanding of, English. Turning a perfectly good noun, such as contact into a verb (a phenomenon); or creating a verb like burglarize out of burglar, when one could use the extant burgle (whence the burglar himself); or ravaging the verb to make a noun, such as utilization, while use, a poor monosyllable cousin, sits idly by. But English, she evolves, and I shrug.