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June 30, 2004
Talking head
The idiot that called a rhinocerous a rhino-serious on TV a few weeks ago just used the word microsm.
Apparently a microsm is a smaller group that represents a larger group in terms of diversity. A group of Iraqi-Americans (apparently that is now a politically correct term) met at a nearby hotel to celebrate the hand over of power to their civilian government. The journalist (journalist my arse) talked about the microsm of Iraq at the hotel because various flavors of Islam and other religions were represented.
Microsm, rhino-serious I certainly am glad I don't get my news solely from local TV news.
I guess J school is a microcosm of the US.
Posted by Matthew at June 30, 2004 11:04 PM
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I understand your pain. Our local TV news often drives me crazy with misprounounced words, never mind abusing the English language.
Our even more local radio station is worse, since they get their workers from the nearby community college's radio/tv course. I know what they do/don't learn as I took my LT course at the same comm. college and had to take some classes with the radio/tv people. The radio station has one woman who reads the news and extends the last sound of the last word of every sentence and sort of raises the sound on the end. "In the news tonightttttttt. More political scandalssssss." If she's reading the news, I have to change the station or turn the radio off.
One of my pet peeves is people who confuse "taut" with "taunt". I've seen it on a national TV show. I couldn't believe it got by the producers and the people at the tv channel that airs the show. Somedays, I just want to shove pencils in my ears and end the pain.
s/
Posted by: slashgirl at July 1, 2004 01:59 AM