Delighted people in news: Viewpoint: First Foo Foo Festival starts today

11/06/2014

Viewpoint: First Foo Foo Festival starts today - Pensacola News Journal

Viewpoint: First Foo Foo Festival starts today

Pensacola News Journal

I am delighted and proud to help present Pensacola's inaugural Foo Foo Festival. I offer my appreciation to the Escambia County Commission for its support of ACE and its mission to support our community's well-being. Together, public and private ...

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...is entirely a fake construct. It was built to underpin my fundamental objection to the word "delighted" being included in every single press/news release ever written. *1

People seem to be delighted about many things, and hopefully by reading these posts you'll get a feel for just how "delighted" you should be.*2

Who, really, uses the word "delighted" in conversation? Have you mentioned to a friend how "delighted" you are with something recently? No. You haven't. I haven't.*3

How about "pleased" or "happy" or "elated" or "thrilled" or "excited" or, if you're a human being who regularly uses colloquial English, "over the moon" or "made up"?

After more than twenty years working as a journalist on various newsdesks, the word "delighted" simply does not delight me any more.

*1 Almost.

*2 Delight meter not necessarily available in your region.

*3 Obviously except for when I'm complaining loudly to my newsroom about how sick I am of the word "delighted".

11/06/2014

Viewpoint: First Foo Foo Festival starts today - Pensacola News Journal

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