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Pronounced Dead

A lot of headlines in media are Hollywoodised by these two words - pronounced dead.  First shot then pronounced dead.  Or he was later pronounced dead.  After arriving at the hospital with multiple gun shot wounds he was pronounced dead.  DOA is another way to pronounce this.

What is weird is before they can spell check or learn proper English and pronunciation they hasten to shoot the subject then do all the pronouncing.  May be grammar was not their strong suit in school.

Something is going on.  If they keep doing this then they will eventually stop pronouncing altogether.  Just shoot then shoot some more.  If someone asks for something by way of pronouncements shoot some more.

How's that for a pronouncement?

I pronounce you HUSBAND and WIFE... really - what if he did not take lessons in school - would he have trouble pronouncing? I mean who hired this jackass anyway?

Its like another peeve I have -  this other word in English that is an antonym of itself - COMMUTE.

I often hear some loser who gets his sentence commuted because he wore the right flavor of cologne when in prison and made the homosexual warden happy. 

That commuting is shortening or reducing a punishment, whereas a commute - the actual moving back and forth to a place of work, which is excruciating is actually lengthening the pain and suffering for the commuter.   So which is it?  Are we commuting or are we commuting?  Maybe we all need to be committed.  To what?  Defnitely grammar failing which to an asylum is what.

I am definitely not down with this whole confusion.  Because wouldn't you know being 'DOWN with it' is considered as you being UP for it!  Its a topsy turvy world after all.

Comments

  1. RajendraOctober 4, 2013 at 12:11 AM

    What goes up must come down. Pronounced live must end as pronounced dead, like it or not.

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