I'm a rare breed. I love grammar, and I have a very sensitive ear to the nuances of language. I've written many times about how important it is to word bombing, shellings, rocket attacks, etc in "active" rather than "passive." Also, please don't word things giving the impression that a gun spontaneously aimed itself and shot someone.
Please don't write/say:
By using "parve" gentle words and inaccurate grammatical forms one is actually distorting the truth.
Accurate reporting and writing is extremely crucial in Israel's war for survival against the cruelest of enemies, Arab terrorists and their supporters. Don't be shy about writing clearly and bluntly.
Please don't write/say:
"Weapon fired at..."Calling a terror attack an "incident" also makes me furious. The definition of "incident" is:
"Missiles were launched at..."
I also go rather ballistic when I read about people/Jews "who perished" in the Holocaust, as if it was a natural disaster, like an avalanche.
- an individual occurrence or event.
- a distinct piece of action, or an episode, as in a story or play.
- something that occurs casually in connection with something else
By using "parve" gentle words and inaccurate grammatical forms one is actually distorting the truth.
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It is not an "incident, something that occurs casually" when Arab terrorists shoot at innocent Jews standing at a junction. Photo of the "live"via facebook funeral of prematurely born Amiad Yisrael Ish-Ran. |