May 23, 2005
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Note to CNN.com's editor: "Disrespect" is not a verb.
Mercy Maud, it's difficult enough to maintain proper standards of English grammar without finding on CNN's website, Parents: Army disrespected Tillman's memory
This observation, of course, does not address the validity of the late
soldier's parents' complaint, merely the newsite's lamentable mangling
of the language.
Comments (1)
hey, it doesn't read "Parents: Army dissed Tillman's Memory" and that's where it comes from, this use of disrespect as a verb. "You dissin' me?" just like the ubiquitous pants-below-the-underwear-nay-even-the entire-butt-of-young-men- everywhere. Gangsta style is here, and looks like it's going to stay.
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