No, but "alleged" is not very specific. Alleged by who? his crazy ex girlfriend? His Kindergarten teacher? The police? A district attorney?
It has come to be used often as a shorthand for "charged and on trial, but not convicted yet". So SAY that. Instead, it is now used as a craven legal figleaf trying to cover the next statement to follow. Around here, it would instead be followed "but I don't mean that in a bad way". On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]>wrote: > > Since he explicitly forbids the use of the word "alleged", I'll just > have to call him a douchenozzle instead of an alleged douchenozzle . > > Some of those things I can kind of see the logic behind. The > mispronunciations, well, you shouldn't hire people that cannot > pronounce "hundred" correctly. But how in the world would you > correctly report the news if you can't use the word alleged? Guy's > been charged with murder but has not been convicted. He's an alleged > murderer. Do you want to just call him a murderer and ignore the > trial? > > > > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Jerry Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > This topic has been burning hot across the news business this morning. > > > > I actually agree with most of his list. What say you all? > > > > > http://blogs.vocalo.org/feder/2010/03/memo-puts-wgn-news-staffers-at-a-loss-for-words/17374 > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:313342 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
