speter Posted January 28, 2009 Posted January 28, 2009 Incidentally I heard that CNN will fine a newscaster if they use the word ’foreign’ instead of ’international’. Veterans of International Wars?
cuttlefish Posted January 28, 2009 Posted January 28, 2009 Paul, I wonder if the CNN solution might work. They refer to everything as “International”[...] Incidentally I heard that CNN will fine a newscaster if they use the word ’foreign’ instead of ’international’. I recall that this edict applied to all Turner networks, and for the time that they owned the WCW pro wrestling league, they referred to weapons brought into the ring as "international objects".
paul d hunt Posted January 28, 2009 Author Posted January 28, 2009 they referred to weapons brought into the ring as “international objects”. oh the joys of terminology, remind me not to talk terms ever again. please.
Si_Daniels Posted January 28, 2009 Posted January 28, 2009 >Incidentally I heard that CNN will fine a newscaster if they use the word ’foreign’ instead of ’international’. Fines, in which currency? Also we need to reduce our dependence on international oil. I’d also like to see “foreign man acting suspiciously” turn into “international man of mystery” and then get sued by Austin Powers.
Simon Robertson Posted January 28, 2009 Posted January 28, 2009 @sii - ha! :-) i'd like to see that too!
John Hudson Posted January 29, 2009 Posted January 29, 2009 Maxim, I take the editors of the Chicago Manual of Style to be using the word peculiar in its original sense of belonging or pertaining to, not in the common colloquial sense of odd or strange.
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