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Discussion Groups / English Usage / September 2007Depose
DAN RATHER MAY SEEK TO DEPOSE PRESIDENT BUSH IN LAWSUIT.... Headline on Drudge. It seems that Rather may call Bush as a witness in a possible law suit, rather than deposing Bush from office? > DAN RATHER MAY SEEK TO DEPOSE PRESIDENT BUSH IN LAWSUIT.... > > Headline on Drudge. It seems that Rather may call Bush as a witness > in a possible law suit, rather than deposing Bush from office? Too bad. Why the question mark? >> DAN RATHER MAY SEEK TO DEPOSE PRESIDENT BUSH IN LAWSUIT.... >> [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >Why the question mark? Dunno, maybe thinking of President Rather. >>> DAN RATHER MAY SEEK TO DEPOSE PRESIDENT BUSH IN LAWSUIT.... >>> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Dunno, maybe thinking of President Rather. I had another moment's difficulty caused by assuming "rather" was an adverb.  SignatureMike. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com Mike Lyle filted: >>>> DAN RATHER MAY SEEK TO DEPOSE PRESIDENT BUSH IN LAWSUIT.... > >I had another moment's difficulty caused by assuming "rather" was an >adverb. Arizona small-town news stories are fraught with peril for the casual headline reader; we have towns called Why and Surprise....r Signature"You got Schadenfreude on my Weltanschauung!" "You got Weltanschauung in my Schadenfreude!" Mike Lyle: >> I had another moment's difficulty caused by assuming "rather" was an >> adverb. R.H. Draney: > Arizona small-town news stories are fraught with peril for the casual > headline reader; we have towns called Why and Surprise. I remember an incident some years ago involving a ship whose captain's name was You. In the Toronto Star, like most newspapers, second and subsequent references to a person in a news story normally use the surname alone. I don't remember if there were any actual ambiguous sentences (like "You had no comment" or "You said he was on the bridge") in the story I read, but there definitely were things like "You was on the bridge", which I found rather jarring. I wished they'd chosen a different form of his name to use. See my signature quote for a similar example. SignatureMark Brader "Male got pregnant -- on the first try." Toronto Newsweek article on high-tech conception msb@vex.net November 30, 1987 My text in this article is in the public domain. Mark Brader filted: >R.H. Draney: >> Arizona small-town news stories are fraught with peril for the casual [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > >See my signature quote for a similar example. C: "All I wanna know is what's the fella's name on first base!" A: "What is on second." C: "I'm not askin' ya who's on second!" A: "Who is on first." C: "I don't know..." Both: "Third base!" ....r Signature"You got Schadenfreude on my Weltanschauung!" "You got Weltanschauung in my Schadenfreude!" |
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