To: econjack
I was wondering if anyone else would notice the error of substituting that for who. Journalists for the most famous of news companies do it. So do many highly educated celebrities.
24 posted on
05/28/2013 1:34:48 PM PDT by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
To: familyop
I doubt if most people care enough to notice. Another word that is abused often is decimate. Most people assume it means total destruction when it really means to destroy every tenth item. It has Roman origins and, if a squad of soldiers were observed to behave in a cowardly manner, every tenth man was killed, so the squad was said to be decimated. However, it's been screwed up for so long, its meaning is slowly changing...and don't even get me started on confusing then and than. How sad...
25 posted on
05/28/2013 2:15:58 PM PDT by
econjack
(Some people are as dumb as soup.)
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