Helping missing people

Victor Steinbok aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Sun Mar 13 21:14:28 UTC 2011


... So it's just missing one or two words--[to] find, depending on
whether one is OK with "help find" or not.

     VS-)

On 3/13/2011 12:47 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> This morning a CNN scroll read (very close, but perhaps not
> transcribed exactly accurately):
>
> "Google sets up web site to help missing people."
>
> Perhaps that should have been "help formerly-missing people"?
>
> Later in the day (I first saw it at about 12:30 EDT), the CNN scroll read:
>
> "Google launches web site to help relatives find loved ones in Japan."
>
> Joel

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