Monday, 28 April 2014

Pristiner

Pristiner: adjective. From the often unused words belonging to a group of redundant expressions, the word pristiner seems to be the least used and the least known. Unlike the more common words like idealer, gooder or normaler, pristiner is actually the only one that was ever accepted as a proper expression. In fact, it wasn´t too long ago that everything was judged on a scale from pollutedest to pristinest, but with the influence "the greens" have had over popular media, all of the stages in between these two polar opposites were destroyed in the minds of the public, leaving only the superlatives that soon degraded into simple adjectives, remaining lifelong enemies at opposite ends of the spectrum. Pristiner, therefore, is only one of the words in the long list that involves words such as polluteder, moderately impristined and semipollutedlike, all of which have dropped out of common use when the already mentioned greens managed to convince everyone that there is no such thing as partially polluted and partially pristine. This deviated black and green view of the world has, according to professor Sprout of Cucumbershire University, led to the retardation of the English speaking public in the same way that Waltzing destroyed the Austro-Hungarian Empire with its decadent movements and inappropriately seductive closeness of dancing pairs.  

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