FAIR Changes Name of Defenders Website

[_Corpsegrinder]

"The Mormon Defense League" is out. "MormonVoices" is in.

The first couple times I looked at it I thought it was MormonVices.

[_Cardinal Biggles]

Mormon Voices? Won't people think of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir?

[_Corpsegrinder]

Mormon Voices? Won't people think of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir?

No, that would be Closeted Gay Mormon Voices. :D

[_DrW]

Before these guys undertake the task of correcting the writing of others, perhaps they should hire a good copy editor for themselves.

From the DN article: "If somebody writes something — whether a journalist or even a politician — that is egregiously bad, we will correct them,"

Definition of egregious -> conspicuously bad

[_Chap]

Before these guys undertake the task of correcting the writing of others, perhaps they should hire a good copy editor for themselves.

From the DN article: "If somebody writes something — whether a journalist or even a politician — that is egregiously bad, we will correct them,"

Definition of egregious -> conspicuously bad

Well, I know that 'egregious' (from Latin, 'out of the flock' = 'standing out from the crowd') nowadays refers to being conspicuous in a bad way (not its original sense), but I don't think it contains 'bad' in it to an extent that would make 'egregiously bad' a straightforward pleonasm. But I agree that a sensitive soul concerned to avoid the merest suspicion of illiteracy on the part of the more pedantic might prefer to avoid such an expression. Personally, I might tough it out.

[_selek]

Before these guys undertake the task of correcting the writing of others, perhaps they should hire a good copy editor for themselves.

From the DN article: "If somebody writes something — whether a journalist or even a politician — that is egregiously bad, we will correct them,"

Definition of egregious -> conspicuously bad

In this context, egregious could mean historically accurate.