Oscillating

I've been thinking about the word "oscillate" a lot lately (yeah, I know, shut up), and how it's basically just taking up unnecessary space in our dictionaries. First of all, it's far too complicated-sounding for what it means--a back and forth motion. Secondly, it's only ever used in reference to ONE thing--a fan. Have you ever, EVER used "oscillating" to describe anything except a fan? I'll answer for you: no. never. never ever. So, I advocate a total removal of the word oscillate from all fan packages (because that's the only place it's used), to be replaced by the phrase "this thing moves back and forth, unless you don't want it to in which case you can turn off the back and forth function". problem solved.

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