Averse to Being Risk Adverse

By Paul Kedrosky · July 30, 2007 · ·

Okay, language usage pet peeve time. The phrase is “risk averse”, not “risk adverse”. Sure, the latter construction isn’t meaningless, but it’s not what you think you mean either.

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Comments

  1. C. Maoxian says:
    July 30, 2007 at 6:29 am

    True… it’s a quick way to spot dummies. As the poet wrote: speak, that I may see thee.

  2. Andrew says:
    July 30, 2007 at 6:46 am

    Is this related to the averse selection problem?

  3. Vera says:
    July 30, 2007 at 3:43 pm

    Language usage pet peeve time?
    The ‘lion’s share’ is all of it.
    Vera

  4. Mathew Ingram says:
    July 30, 2007 at 6:26 pm

    Keep up the fight, Paul :-)