People who use the word 'Guesstimate' should die horribly in a series of fires..
It actually makes me a little angry that my spellcheck actually recognizes it as a word. Use this word in front of me and I'll be overtaken by an almost uncontrollable urge to punch you as hard as I can, right in the center of your face.
It's a completely redundant word.
Guess: to arrive at or commit oneself to an opinion about (something) without having sufficient evidence to support the opinion fully: to guess a person's weight.
Estimate: to make an educated guess regarding the worth, amount, size, weight, etc., of something.
So, if you're guessing at something, you're taking a shot in the dark without any information. If you're estimating something, you're making a guess, but with a limited amount of information.
So, what in the blue fuck does 'Guesstimate' mean? I'll tell you what it means. 'Guesstimate' means 'Estimate'. You can either take a guess, or you can estimate, you can't 'guesstimate' It's a total fucking oxymoron.
If you use the word 'Guesstimate, you're an asshole and you should die in a fire.
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I don't do guesstimates, I do SWAG's (Scientific Wild Ass Guesses)
Oh and since when did you start spelling in American? Recognise, your American Typo? lol
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/recognise
Oh and on the subject of Bastardised English, I had a test today at a Staffing Agency, where I was quite literally forced (at the risk of failing the test) to claim that FLAVOUR was misspelled. You have no idea how much I wanted to slap them all upside the head aand explain that the U belongs in all these words that they have chosen to remove it from!
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