Trump EXPLODES on BIDEN and his Pardonees - Talking Feds

[Rhiannon12866]

Harry Litman discusses Trump's shocking claims that President Biden's pardons are invalid. - 03/17/2025.

[3catwoman3]

1. Is "pardonee" a word?

I hope not. It's awful

I detest the word "mentee."

[Rhiannon12866]

2. I figured that Harry Litman knows more about legal terms than I do... Though I wondered too

[3catwoman3]

3. Dictionary.com could not find it.

I would have said "recipients of Biden pardons."

[Rhiannon12866]

4. I would have, too. Thanks!

And I'm pretty sure that others write these captions.

[3catwoman3]

5. I think I must have been an English teacher or an editor in a previous life.

I'm a nurse in this one, but am definitely a word nerd, and improper/clumsy/awkward language use drives me nuts.

I've rather given up on being part f the spelling police, because some people are good at spelling and others are not, but there's no excuse for crap like "Me and him went to school together."

[Rhiannon12866]

6. I'm the exact same way, to the point of correcting punctuation and spellings in the descriptions I post

My previous job was writing descriptions for network TV shows and I was always looking up words, and especially names. And I had an AP style book at the handy.

[3catwoman3]

7. Have you ever read the books by the late newsman/author Edwin Newman, decrying the dismal...

...state of language skills in the US - Strictly Speaking (1974) and A Civil Tongue(1978)? Fascinating.

When I looked these up to make sure I was remembering the names correctly, I saw that there is a 3rd one, I Must Say (1988), which I haven't read but certainly plan to now that I know of it.

I remember very clearly, way back in high school, in the late 1960s, spending a long time debating on whether to choose endow, indue/endue or imbue to describe an author's choice of ascribing attributes to one of of his characters.