Tuesday, July 20, 2010

My report: Stop it with the "bidness" already

Limbaugh has taken to referring to business as bidness lately. I had assumed he did it just to annoy me, but I looked it up, and it turns out that when pronounced "bidness", the word actually has a different meaning than just business.

From the Urban Dictionary:
The opposite of legitimate business.
2.A street hustle, or a shady and mostly illegal business venture.
3. Dealings that aren't exactly "street legal"

On the other hand, there's a website called Bidness. (http://www.bidness.com)

The Bidness Center
brings to the Web many of the elements that have been missing from web commerce. Real life solutions from grizzled winners who have been there - done that - on the Web.
Why "Bidness?"
Well, academics and spectators may speak of "business," but in the trenches, at street level and on the Web the real game that is afoot is "bidness." The folks who are bringing The Bidness Center to the WWW are proven winners in that rough-and-tumble world where academics flounder and spectators flinch. Recall the classic encounter scene between the academic (business economics professor) and a real player (Rodney Dangerfield) in the hilarious movie "Back to School."

There is business, and then there is getting down to bidness.

I personally just think it's a perversion of the language. Pronounce it, and spell it, like it's supposed to be pronounced and spelled. Anything else is just illiterate and wrong.

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