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The outrages of Ft. Hood and Orlando have become occasions once more for journalistic misuse of the language.
If you were shot but not killed, you were "wounded." The policewoman credited with stopping Ft. Hood's murderous Major is a "heroine."
Count, if you like, the number of times "injured" is referred to the many who were actually wounded, but don't bother to count the times the little lady shows up as a "hero."
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TexasEngineer| 11.6.09 @ 6:40PM
English; The Lost Language.
I cringe upon hearing approximately 40% of the sentences...or sentence fragments...uttered by this crop of pompous air heads.
PKane| 11.6.09 @ 7:17PM
Where have you been? the feminists decreed many years ago that the feminine versions of words such as heroine, actress, etc. were to give way to the universal use of the masculine. This is in the name of equality, I suppose.
Maybe we should consider ourselves lucky they didn't erase the masculine versions instead.
Alan Brooks| 11.6.09 @ 8:57PM
Someone once called Janis Joplin a heroin.
Alan Brooks | 11.6.09 @ 8:59PM
Wasn't Billie Holiday also a heroin?
TennesseeVolunteer| 11.7.09 @ 10:17AM
We love women like Kimberly Munley (heroine at Ft. Hood), Sarah Palin and Christine Bachman of Minnesota.......because THEY FIGHT!
Sam| 11.7.09 @ 1:14PM
TenneseeVolunteer-
I'm glad you support Christine Bachman. I've never heard of her. Is she related to Michele Bachman (R-Minn)?
In baseball, we have a phrase for those kinds of mistakes: STAY HOT!!!!!
Oldefarte| 11.7.09 @ 1:24PM
Yes she is a HERO, and also, Nadal is a DOMESTIC TERRORIST [and not a Muslim 'victim']!!!!!