overheard on a a reporter on a national news broadcast re: rescue attempts in New Orleans,
"We heard that there was a gentleman who was stuck in his boat just downstream from us so we are efforting to help rescue agencies to find him".
Talk about creative speech.
any comments?
Kt
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- Grand Panjandrum
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Re: efforting
I love this kind of stuff, and i'm not even a native speaker .overheard on a a reporter on a national news broadcast re: rescue attempts in New Orleans,
"We heard that there was a gentleman who was stuck in his boat just downstream from us so we are efforting to help resuce agencies to find him".
Lovely proof that English is not a dead language!!!
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Yeah, I can understand it, too; what I can't understand is why. Why he said it, that is. That sounds like something that should be in the "Engrish in Asia" file of pictures that Agoraphile sent me. Examples:Efforting I can understand . . . Brazilian dude
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