Howard Stern show regular, Sal Governale, was mad about people not “mitigating”… but apparently he doesn’t know what the word means.
Stern Show staffer Sal Governale is upset over people not “mitigating,” but it seems he’s not sure what that word actually means.
The Howard Stern YouTube Channel
Mitigate means “smooth over” – for example, if you mitigate a disaster, you make it less bad. But, as Humpty Dumpty said in Through the Looking Glass:
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”
Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass
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