Wording me softly
From an AP news story:
"The family of former professional football player Pat Tillman says the Army disrespected his memory by lying in its investigation of his death in Afghanistan last year."
I sympathize with the Tillman family. But I take issue with AP and the editors who think that anyone can take any noun and make it into a verb, without so much as a "by your leave" or "if you please".
When I speak ill of someone, I show him disrespect; I am disrespectful; or I treat him disrespectfully. I do NOT "disrespect" him, because that just ain't a word.
If AP continues to word me to distraction, I will show them disrespect.
"The family of former professional football player Pat Tillman says the Army disrespected his memory by lying in its investigation of his death in Afghanistan last year."
I sympathize with the Tillman family. But I take issue with AP and the editors who think that anyone can take any noun and make it into a verb, without so much as a "by your leave" or "if you please".
When I speak ill of someone, I show him disrespect; I am disrespectful; or I treat him disrespectfully. I do NOT "disrespect" him, because that just ain't a word.
If AP continues to word me to distraction, I will show them disrespect.
posted by Greg Finnegan @ 2:18 PM
3 Comments:
At 7:34 PM,
Unknown said…
I guess when we hear something used a certain way a hundred million times, we stop thinking about it.....but a hundred million times doesn't make it right.
At 8:36 PM,
Greg Finnegan said…
Brenda, you're right. As we used to say in the Navy, "a million here, a million there, it all adds up. Soon, you've got yourself some REAL money!"
-Greg
At 8:37 PM,
Unknown said…
Wake up, you have blogging to do.
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