Cheerskep: If you're upset by the more recognized form: "impactful" you
might consider "forceful" or the admittedly, more wordy, "having impact".
Geoff C
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Subject: Re: Cheerskep envision #3
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:07:09 EDT
In a message dated 10/31/08 11:54:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> For that offense, you're sentenced to hard time in the Maximum
> Security Prison for Adjectival Abuse. Your neologism privileges are
> revoked and you may not use faux words that end in -ive without a
> licensed editor sitting next to you.
>
You mean I can't say 'attractive' any more? 'Impactive' is a lousy
concoction
that I sullenly accepted long ago because the alternative, 'impactful'
seemed
equally ugly and silly besides. 'Impacting' also doesn't do it. 'Striking'
has its virtues, but it connotes a cerebral kind of impact, but works of
the
greatest impact hit home at more than just the cortex. I'm open to
suggestions.
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