May 23, 2005

  • 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.

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  • 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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