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A curious headline out of ITAR-DAN today:
Annexation of Little Catalina and Trinity Bay North Nearing Completion
This corner can't recall any previous occasion in which the abstract noun "annexation" was used in a way that would suggest "to annex" is an intransitive verb.
Who is doing the annexing?
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posted by WJM @ 5:34 PM
3 Comments:
At least they didn't say anschluss.
"Annexation" is the sort of word someone comes up with to replace amalgamation.
In the same way that "relocation" has replaced "resettlement", which itself replaced "relocation" back in the day.
Still, it's rather odd to replace the administrative "amalgamation" with the rather ominous-sounding (and incorrect) "annexation". Some caterpillar is trying way too hard to make words mean what they want them too.
You're missing the obvious. They're still spooked by the Eric the Amalgamator stigma. That trumps grammar any day.
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