Clare Stephens

I see you have a pen and paper.

Please pick up the pen.

If you caption a video, POV, you're too short to reach the top shelf, that should feature a camera tilted up at something just out of reach.

It should not depict a short person hopping up and down in the middle of the screen trying to reach a shelf.

You got that?

POV is being used as synonymous with fly on the wall, and that is just not right.

Have you told everybody what it actually stands for?

Yeah, point of view.

Holly, keep up.

Incidentally, the same thing.

Now I have your attention.

The same thing has happened with aesthetic.

That doesn't mean pretty or good looking or nice.

It means what something looks like.

It's like the look of something.

So that's very aesthetic is not a correct use of the word aesthetic.

As you can see, I am fun at parties.

Any questions?

Yeah, the linguists say it's fine.

I should say that in this New York Times article they interviewed a linguist, a cunning one at that, and they said it's fine, just relax.