The BBC's frightening misuse of English
Take a look at this headline: Man who 'frightened' pilot jailed.
I was somewhat startled to see this in the BBC's own link to the article, for it simply gave the headline. Why, I asked myself, is someone who is easily frightened by a passenger allowed to pilot a plane? How do passengers gain access to the pilot? Doesn't the crew intervene? And did the second pilot take over from the frightened pilot?
It turns out that the pilot wasn't frightened at all, he simply feared that a passenger was putting his own life and that of other passengers at risk of injury.
Yet another frightful example of the steady decline of BBC English. Frightening, isn't it?
I was somewhat startled to see this in the BBC's own link to the article, for it simply gave the headline. Why, I asked myself, is someone who is easily frightened by a passenger allowed to pilot a plane? How do passengers gain access to the pilot? Doesn't the crew intervene? And did the second pilot take over from the frightened pilot?
It turns out that the pilot wasn't frightened at all, he simply feared that a passenger was putting his own life and that of other passengers at risk of injury.
Yet another frightful example of the steady decline of BBC English. Frightening, isn't it?
posted by Peter G at 11:27 am
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