When, exactly, did everyone begin to use "hard" as an adverb for -ing verbs? I'm not sure if it's correct english, but it's asthetically upsetting to me.

Drudge has used it for a while ("Developing hard!"); now some "industry source" in the Ziff-Davis magazine sell-off is joining the travesty parade ("They are shopping those hard," said one industry source.)

Aaugh!

Something else that's upsetting: misspelling 'aesthetically'.

You think that's upsetting? Imagine having to tell law students--post-graduates all--that "goes" is not synonymous with "said."

Heh, heh. There's a great Raymond Carver short story that uses the "she goes/he goes" illiteration to great effect.

The business world loves inventing new uses for words. We have them to thank for the way impact is commonly used now. "How will this impact our sales?" It used to be that the only things that were impacted like that were teeth.

I got tripped up on a press release that claimed that a leading developer was "console agnostic"...
which is fine, I guess, because I'm not sure if I believe or disbelieve in consoles either.

-Andrew