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To: Fiji Hill
Speaking of linguistics, so-called journalists trend toward referring to one of these addled people in a plural tense is maddening. I can't count how many times I reread an article trying to find the "other person I missed" reading it the first time - to eventually realize I'd fallen for it again.

It makes me sympathize with Charlie Brown trying to kick that football.

CharlieBrownFootball

20 posted on 01/09/2025 7:07:49 AM PST by MikelTackNailer (We can never stop failing for the minute we do, we fail.)
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To: MikelTackNailer

If Karl Marx were using the woke journalistic style of today, he would write, “from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs.”


31 posted on 01/09/2025 8:20:56 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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