Oh, the horror
Whatever else is happening in Iraq, the journo's have inflicted a severe wound on the English language.
I have read a goodly number of books and many of them have been histories of war - and in this context, WW1.
The phrase is 'war of attrition.' Not a pleasing concept, but a concept (and practice) nonetheless. However, the journos working for (I think) primarily SKY News now say things like 'Coaltion forces will attrit the Iraqi army'
Attrit? ATTRIT?
I refuse to believe such a word exists. The war must end soon before the damage to the grammar becomes irreversible. I think it was Bill Watterson, cartoonist and writer of Calvin and Hobbes who coined the phrase, 'Verbing weirds words.'
How right he was.
Chaucer ys ynn hir grauve yspinning.
I have read a goodly number of books and many of them have been histories of war - and in this context, WW1.
The phrase is 'war of attrition.' Not a pleasing concept, but a concept (and practice) nonetheless. However, the journos working for (I think) primarily SKY News now say things like 'Coaltion forces will attrit the Iraqi army'
Attrit? ATTRIT?
I refuse to believe such a word exists. The war must end soon before the damage to the grammar becomes irreversible. I think it was Bill Watterson, cartoonist and writer of Calvin and Hobbes who coined the phrase, 'Verbing weirds words.'
How right he was.
Chaucer ys ynn hir grauve yspinning.