The Smartfella? Is Spending Lots of Time in an Ongoing State of Confusion

I used to know and understand the world around me. Now I feel like Sergeant Shultz on Hogan’s Heroes ... “I know nothing!” (I wonder how many out there reading this never heard of Sergeant Shultz and/or Hogan’s Heroes?)

Here is the latest change I don’t understand courtesy of our modern news media...

I used to read things like this in the newspaper:
“What’s Her Name had a child as a result of an adulterous relationship with What’s His Name”.

Now I am reading things like this in the newspaper:
“What’s Her Name produced a child through an encounter with What’s His Name”.

“Adulterous Relationship” I understand but “Encounter” somehow seems different.

To me an encounter is like when you accidently bump into someone on a bus and you say, “Excuse me”. Come to think of it Excuse Me is out also. Now we say, “Get outta my way!”

Oh well, that’s Progress ... Or Is It?

Would I kid u?