[Ads-l] Heard on Forensic files:

[Dave Hause]

For grasping at straws of professional-terminology, my favorite peeve in 
police jargon is "red in color."  What else can "red" describe?
Dave Hause
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From: Wilson Gray
Sent: Wednesday, February 7, 2018 11:27 PM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Heard on Forensic files:

> the speaker is a medical professional

Nope. He was just a local police-detective, probably grasping at a straw
from the professional-terminology class that he had slept through. After
all, what would have been wrong with stopping at "lying on her back"?
That's not open to misinterpretation.

On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 9:30 AM, Baker, John <JBAKER at stradley.com> wrote:

> I’ll tell you who else knows:  medical professionals.  It isn’t clear from
> Wilson’s quote whether the speaker is a medical professional, in which 
> case
> this is an error by the show, or a police officer (who is not a medical
> professional) or a non-medical civilian, for whom this might be a 
> plausible
> error.
>
>
> John Baker
>
>
> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf
> Of Jonathan Lighter
> Sent: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 8:48 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Heard on Forensic files:
>
> Of course. But who else knows that?
>
> JL
>
> On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 7:43 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com<mailto:hwgra
> y at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> > "She was lying on her back, when she was stabbed, _in the prone
> position_."
> >
> > He meant to say, "in the _supine_ position," of course.
> > --
> > -Wilson
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> > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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