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help stop verb abuse

I'm not making this up.  I opened a letter this morning from a job
applicant and found within a sentence that begins like this:

"I was tasked with badging..."

I think I would be more kindly disposed toward the application if the verb
was "badgering" instead.
EPM

Elisabeth Piedmont-Marton,Ph.D.
Coordinator
Undergraduate Writing Center
University of Texas at Austin
(512) 471-6222
epiedmontmarton@mail.utexas.edu