The Purity of the athlete.

 

Today's Tids Issue 5,571 

Words: 

 

So. is the greatness of an athlete now measured by the number of logos sewn into their outfits? 

 

English language is perplexing: Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown? Met a sung hero or experienced requited love? Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where are all those people who are spring chickens or who would actually hurt a fly? 

 

I have always viewed the Olympics as a showcase for track and field and individual sport often beyond the radar of networks. The participants are some of the finest athletes in the world in many of the events that are the basis for why the Summer Olympics exist in the first place. But they don't play a game. They just run and jump and tumble and fly through the air; perform amazing feats. But now everybody wants to get into the act and the media wants to pay homage to the big money players. So, this little preamble is not to slight a great basketball player Labron James, but to select rather an athlete who represents the essence of what built the Olympics to carry the USA flag.  

 

The Question:  

Name two of the most grievous word misuse in A,America. 

 

The Headlines: 

--Secret Service Director Kimerly Cheatle Steps Down.  

--Markets Drifting Awaiting First Earnings from Magnificent Seven, R Tesla and Google Later this afternoon. 

--Netanyahu To Speak Before Senate; Kamala Shuns Him. 

--Vote Counters Say Kamala Has Enough for the Nomination. 

 

The problem we have coming up is that some people will vote only to be part of history  

 

Two guys from New York go on a cross-country trip and end up walking into a bar in Kansas. After a few too many drinks, one of the guys asks the bartender, "Hey, can you tell us how to go cow tipping?" "I'm sorry, gentlemen. Cow tipping is simply an urban myth," the bartender explains. "The farmers actually pay them a competitive wage." 

 

Everybody who is pretty successful is always a good salesperson or politician. But their egos would prefer they weren't called either. 

 

Ocean researchers have found that sharks off the coast of Brazil are loaded with Cocaine.  

 

Some think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways? 

 

Cheatle is not the name you want for a career in politics. 

 

That Tidlet I wrote yesterday about non-ticketed soccer fans stampeding a soccer stadium is not unlike smash and run retail robbery or looters in the wake of other people's tragedies. It seems to be part of this new underlying netherworld based on “I want it and laws don't count”. Be wary of politicians who allow the dilution of laws to meaningless stature. Politicians who undermine the police and liberalize punishment.  

 

A linguistics professor says during a lecture that, “In English, a double negative forms a positive. But in some languages, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, in no language in the world can a double positive form a negative.” But then a voice from the back of the room piped up, “yeah, right.” 

 

I have a new word to describe the upcoming race to the political finish, “Trumperbole.” 

 

The Answer: 

First, we have the three – There, Their and They’re; and Your, You’re. Other common misses are penultimate for ultimate. (Most of the time instead of ultimate it is better to say best!) And irregardless for regardless. Take that from a typist. Or is that a typoist 

 

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? If you wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your tongue? 

 

Have a great day and night!