I catch misspelled words all the time when I watch TV.?ÿ Mostly on the news "breaking banner" that floats across the bottom of my screen.?ÿ My 7th. grade English teacher has rolled over so many times in her grave she has probably spun a cocoon.
Friday morning I happened to catch this on ABC news.?ÿ I'm not really even gonna venture a guess as to whether it was a "Freudian slip" or not.
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The spelling police are seeking volunteers to assist them.?ÿ There is simply too much work needed.
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I receive an email each week listing attention-getting legal issues involving school districts across the U.S.?ÿ So, this is mixing lawyers with educators.?ÿ One item this past week had the title: California district addresses student's claims in suit that school officials failed to response appropriately to allegations of sexual assault.
For some silly reason I have always considered the term "response" to be a noun.?ÿ Yet, here it is being used as a verb.?ÿ "to respond" is surely what was intended.
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Other fascinating topics from this week's list include: a potato gun, JUUL, a teacher showing a photo of her wife to the class, a parent being blocked from the district's twitter account and a case involving a Jewish student being removed from the school's robotics team because he had told an anti-Semitic joke.
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Sounds like a perfect cross-section of American life. And I'm with you on the respond/ response thing. Nobody caught it because spell-check thought it was OK.
A few years ago I heard a young man on TV using "conversate" as a noun instead of a correct "converse". Nails on the chalkboard to me..
The bad part is that since then I've heard several other folks use the word. The barbarians are truly winning.
Chyron - The bottom banner appearing on your television news screen.
The French don't care what they do as long as it's pronounced correctly. -Professor Henry Higgins?ÿ
Word of the day for sure. Thanks, but I'll probably never use it in conversation. And I'm still not sure what a 'kiosk' is.... 😉
It seems the word was the name of the company that made the device to do it. Although trademarked, it is now often used generically, like kleenex, thermos, granola, or xerox.
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@holy-cow The one about the Jewish student being kicked out for an anti-Semitic joke reminded me. I have a good friend who is of Polish descent. He and I used to tell each other any new Polish jokes we heard. In today's world I would probably be fired and shunned for having fun with a friend.
Andy
@flga
Attaboy. Got me chuckling early on a Monday.
@holy-cow The one about the Jewish student being kicked out for an anti-Semitic joke reminded me.?ÿ I have a good friend who is of Polish descent.?ÿ He and I used to tell each other any new Polish jokes we heard.?ÿ In today's world I would probably be fired and shunned for having fun with a friend.
Andy
I had a boss whose last name ended in ski who loved to hear and tell bad Polish jokes. One day he was introduced to another employee who asked if he wanted to hear a Polish joke. After getting an enthusiastic reply, the guy told him a joke in the Polish language.?ÿ That set him back and gave everybody a good laugh.
No, no, it's autoINcorrect.
@flga
What's a stiffy...That made me LOL!
