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Hero Injured

By Reid Collins on 11.6.09 @ 4:43PM

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."

Comments

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!

Pingback| 11.7.09 @ 11:09AM

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