To "e" or not to "e"...

I’ve been wanting to get this one out for a while, but due to being out of town, busy schedule, blah blah blah, you’re getting it now. So here goes…

Recently, an item started me to thinking…I heard about Keith Olbermann berating Glenn Beck for not being able to spell “oligarchy.” Actually, watching the Beck segment in question, he did, in fact, forget the the “c” and spelled the word “oligarhy.” It reminded me of the time when then-VP Dan Quayle spelled potato with an extra “e.” It also reminded me of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s recent linguistic foibles…all 5 of them.

Sotomayor: “All questions of policy are within the providence of Congress first…”
To be accurate, the questions are in the “province” of Congress, not the “divine guidance or care” of Congress (as much as some members of Congress might like to think they’re God…)

Sotomayor: “They build up a story of knowledge about legal thinking…”Actually, one builds a “store” of knowledge…not a story…unless you’re trying to explain why you’ve got classified government documents stuffed down your pants that you’ve just stolen from the National Archives…

Sotomayor: “Under New York, law if you are being threatened with eminent death or very serious injury…”
Um, the word is “imminent”…unless you’re speaking of a “famous” death…

Sotomayor: “This first seven who are going to be hired, only because of the vagrancies of the vacancies at that moment…”
Not so much, it’s “vagaries” rather than the “homelessness” of the vacancies…

Last but not least, she referred to the “National Labor Relationships Board”…uh…no…that’s the “National Labor Relations Board…”

Why am I even pointing out these petty linguistic missteps? If the truth be known, I really couldn’t care less about Sotomayor’s mistakes…everyone misspeaks from time to time, but after watching those in the media rip both Quayle and Beck apart for SINGLE LETTER mistakes, I find it a little odd that there’s no corresponding outrage from the media over these five WHOLE WORD mistakes on the part of Sotomayor? 1 letter...5 words...aw, it's all the same. Is it really? If your doctor was to miss one letter of a single word in your perscription, would that be the same as misusing 5 words?!? C'mon, you know better than that. If the media wants to be taken seriously, they need to report both sides of the issue…and not just determine whether they’ll report on an issue based on the letter in the parentheses behind the name.

Just Got Back...

Sorry for the hiatus but I was out of town again last week...I'll be posting again this week!

Scott