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Non Diving Posts: Discuss Shot in the Gorbals? in the Non-Diving Related Forums forums: Speaking of pedantry... I'm starting to think you do this deliberately Thank God someone got it!! Dual meanings, dichotomy, interpretation, ...

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Old 02-07-04, 06:53 PM
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I'm starting to think you do this deliberately

Thank God someone got it!! Dual meanings, dichotomy, interpretation, PUN was the natural extension! Well in Tom. ::
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Actually Churchill was commenting on some corrections, made by one of his civil servants, to a speech he was writing about (if memory serves) the economic policy of the then Opposition; the CS had made an uber-pedantic correction to do with split-infinitives and ending a sentence with a preposition, rendering:

Churchill's original: "This is the kind of policy I will not put up with!"

The CS then made his changes and then Churchill - true to type - made the following margin notes, before sending the copy back to the CS in question:

Churchill's margin note: "This is the kind of pedantry, up with which, I shall not put..."
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I stand (or more correctly, sit) corrected. At least I got Churchill right
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There a huge differnce between the written word and writing intended for speech.

"A man was shot in Manchester today."

"A man was shot in the Gorbals today."

"A man was seriously wounded in the East End of London this afternoon."

All are perfectly correct for a TV or Radio bulletin.

What would be better as a tabloid newspaper lead would be.

"A Manchester man was shot today ....

unless reported locally then ..

"A man from Trafford was shot this afternoon...

Moving on ...

Or a Daily Mail lead would be ...

Manchester rocked to the sound of gunfire today as a local man was unmercifully targetted by a Labour-voting, vegetarian, homosexual ...

Daily Telegraph lead would be ...

There was an incident in the North earlier and I was awoken from my slumber at the club ...

Guardian lead would be ...

Come on make yer own up !!
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Guardian lead would be ...

Come on make yer own up !!
One of the opresed [sic] Northern masses...
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What would be better as a tabloid newspaper lead would be.

"A Manchester man was shot today ....
What if it was actually (say) a scouser who'd come to manchester to steal things? In that case, would the original not be more appropriate?

(yes, I'm bored, stuck in the house by myself and the wine's run out...)
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Manchester rocked to the sound of gunfire today as a local man was unmercifully targetted by a Labour-voting, vegetarian, homosexual ...

Come on Gav, YD is not place to be posting yer CV!

Now I know why you said I had a '"face for radio..."
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