Bating

30 May 2010

This is another word that people use because it exists in a clichéd sentence. In this case “I wait with bated breath”.

Apparently it means lessened, so the cliché means that the waiting person has levels of anticipation that means they can scarcely breathe. I can scarcely breathe at the moment, but there’s no bating going on, I’m just desperate to go to sleep.

Whatever is wrong with me, it is refusing to go away. If I become any more zombie-like I will actually start eating people. It was inevitable that I’d never get to be any thing cool like a vampire or werewolf.

Is there a Facebook quiz called “which classic supernatural beast are you? “ I bet there fucking is.