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On a Facebook post this morning, from someone who is an educator, a piece of rhetoric ending with "Wake up my friends you being brain washed by the lame stream media". **shudder** I'm not even sure what's that is supposed to convey!
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Originally Posted by Retriever
That person is trying to convey, albeit in a not very literate manner, that he/she is a follower of Fox (Faux) News.
There are people who believe that the, "facts", broadcast by Fox--and only by Fox--are the unvarnished truth, rather than a narrowly-focused attempt to discredit anything and everything done by anyone other than those on the far right. In other words, these people believe that every other news source in the US--plus foreign ones like Reuters, The BBC, Agence France, The CBC, Nikkei, etc--are all part of a vast, "left-wing conspiracy", to tell lies, and that only Fox has accurate information.
That expression, "lame stream media", is a favorite of a great intellectual commentator on Fox News, namely Sarah Palin.
Certainly nobody would want to try to, "refudiate", Ms. Palin!
Exactly. If you read the political forum, you'll see many Fox News watchers call every other news outlet the MSM (mainstream media) or the "lamestream" media, because according to them, only Fox News is "fair and balanced."
In today's mail, I received an announcement of the opening of a new office for a team of surgeons. Since I have never been a patient of any of these MDs, I'm not quite sure why I received this mailing, but at least I did learn a new word as a result of this notice.
What new word did I learn?
It relates to one of the specialties of a surgeon, whose practice is limited to, "General, Vascular, Advanced Laparoscopic, and Endovasgualr", surgeries.
Hopefully, his surgical techniques are better than his skills at proofreading his mailings.
In today's mail, I received an announcement of the opening of a new office for a team of surgeons. Since I have never been a patient of any of these MDs, I'm not quite sure why I received this mailing, but at least I did learn a new word as a result of this notice.
What new word did I learn?
It relates to one of the specialties of a surgeon, whose practice is limited to, "General, Vascular, Advanced Laparoscopic, and Endovasgualr", surgeries.
Hopefully, his surgical techniques are better than his skills at proofreading his mailings.
Wow! I hope you notified the office.
Was it a letter or a card from a printing company? If the latter, it's a shame no one at the printing company could spell, either.
My father had a high school education. He worked for a printing company as a Linotype operator and sometimes set type by hand. He not only could spell properly, he could do it in mirror reverse!
I love reading police reports (I used to work at a PD and saw plenty of strangely worded reports)
My wife's brother was a big city cop, and she gave him one of those word-a-day desk calendars. He made it a point to put each day's new word in at least one police report. Talk about strangely-worded reports. Words like ductile and interregnum and obfuscatory.
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I love reading police reports (I used to work at a PD and saw plenty of strangely worded reports) 
