Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Non-Good English

Heard on the local news not more than three minutes ago:

"The three passengers of the car were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries."

I would have prefered to hear "with injuries that were not life-threatening."

But people seem to like saying the "non."

Nonfat.

Nondisclosure.

Nonentity.

And so forth.

I call it nonsense.

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