Seeing this more and more. Annoys me but if that is my biggest problem I'm doing okay. A missile-launching battleship has been put on 72-hour standby to attack Iran, while Donald Trump called off an air strike last night. Iran executes 'CIA spy in airforce' just days after shooting down US drone
Sorry old chap but what does one expect from such a .... I am reluctant to call it a newspaper, or a journal. One must also remember that another so called newpaper and notably its 'Defence Correspondant' recently mentioned Vera Lynn using a private jet in 1944 Maybe some of it is down to the education system today TD
I’m doing my best fighting in the educational front lines but I’m feeling it’s a hopeless battle against ignorance and the pernicious influence of the internet. I was recently at my daughters’ primary school and had to restrain myself from pointing out more than a few egregious errors in the stuff they were teaching them about WW1 and WW2. I find that even the subject knowledge of some of my History teaching colleagues is a bit superficial and often repeats a lot of populist myths.
^It same here it is especially infuriating that so often casualty is translated as kaatunut (killed). Also in some newspapers almost all fire-arms are machine guns or at least automatic weapons.
I guess I'm old enough now to be a cranky geezer shouting at the TV news but another thing that bugs me are talking heads saying decimate when they mean obliterate, annihilate or totally destroy. CNN just said that Iran's military would be decimated if they went to war with the US. They should be so lucky.
Hi Dave I take your point, but it looks like they have altered the definition- decimate [ˈdɛsɪmeɪt] 1. kill, destroy, or remove a large proportion of. "the inhabitants of the country had been decimated" synonyms: get rid of · eliminate · do away with · remove · suppress · exterminate · destroy · annihilate · extirpate · obliterate · kill · wipe out · liquidate · decimate · finish off · abolish · stamp out · extinguish · quash · wipe off the face of the earth · wipe off the map · erase · efface · excise · expunge · root out · uproot · weed out · zap · deracinate drastically reduce the strength or effectiveness of (something). "public transport has been decimated" 2. historical kill one in every ten of (a group of people, originally a mutinous Roman legion) as a punishment for the whole group. "the man who is to determine whether it be necessary to decimate a large body of mutineers" I wonder how many people would know the 2nd meaning! regards Robert
Hi Bofors, You are right, of course. Same thing has happened to the way forte is pronounced. Mispronounced so often that people look at you funny when you say it correctly. One syllable, unless it is loud music
I seem to remember the 1960s film 'Fall of the Roman Empire' - I hope I've got the title correct - started with a scene featuring Decimation on a Viaduct?
