"Optics" are for camera lenses and telescopes, dammit!

[Atman]

"Visuals," "images," "pictures," those are what we see. Which media moran started using "optics" to mean "images?"

Morning pet peeve time!

[BlueJazz]

1. Yep...I've seen that also. I used to make Reflector Telescope mirrors and we ..

...would grind the glass to a parabolic curvature.

I certainly didn't grind the "Image" or the "Picture"

Wonder were in the hell these people went to school?? :)

[MineralMan]

5. It was the National School of Unoriginal Journalism

Lots of graduates from that school, where they teach young people to use the latest jargon as often as possible.

[Karenina]

2. Sorry, Atman...

Usage ALWAYS trumps. :pals:

[MineralMan]

4. This isn't usage, it's misusage.

Calling the media out on their poor use of language is always appropriate.

[Karenina]

8. Not that it changes anything.

:shrug:

[MineralMan]

3. I thought that term had fallen out of use by the media.

I guess not. I've always hated that one.

[A HERETIC I AM]

6. "Chomping at the bit"

Horses do NOT "Chomp" at the bit.

It is "CHAMPING at the Bit"

Bugs the shit out of me.

And pronouncing "Forte" as "for-Tay"

It is a French word that rhymes with "Torte".

[Karenina]

9. It's also Italian and you will not find a trained musician on this planet

rhyming it with torte. :rofl:

Well, maybe 1 or 2 somewhere...

[XemaSab]

7. Binoculars too

:)

[SoCalDem]

10. "We are efforting to find out for you"..drives me INSANE

:grr:

[UTUSN]

11. Yip, it's the kewl word o'th'day. But as "perception," as in,

he might deserve a vacation but the perception is of let'em eat cake.