Outrageously Funny Word Dictionary :: All involving

👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully prickly little bit of English: 

"All involving."

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Now, frankly, when I first saw that construction, I nearly choked on my brie and a thesaurus. Because honestly? It's... weird. You wouldn't normally see that anywhere unless someone was trying to deliberately sound overly fussy and maybe a little pretentious. Let me unpack it for you. Essentially, "all involving" is an aggressively specific qualifier. Instead of saying something is part of, concerned with, or has some relation to a thing – you—it insists that the entirety, every single blessed aspect, is inextricably linked to this one particular thing. 100%! Zero wiggle-room for anything else. It's like saying, instead of describing a house as having a garden and a comfy armchair, you need to state that the house, the garden, the armchair – everything—is entirely involved with…the colour beige. (The beige is, of course, vitally important.) It's a phrasing so emphatic that it practically vibrates with the need for precision, even when the precision isn’t actually necessary! It feels like a desperate attempt to avoid any ambiguity, but in reality, just screams, "I've spent too long agonizing over my wording!". People who use this a lot are probably very attached to their definitions and have a really intense way of doing things. --- Here’