Badly worded charity ads

Recently, we received this in the mail:



At first glance, this appears to be an innocent request for money for cancer research, BUT!! Then there is this bit:


So... support the youth cancer centre and we will make sure that from now on, adults will have a better chance of surviving cancer than kids. It's only fair.

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Communication is everything

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[Pet Hate] "shot dead" @newsaustralia

Just watching the Channel 9 afternoon news, and the story about the Chang killer being deported to Malaysia. In summary, the newsreader said, "when Victor Chang was shot dead".

This is one of the phrases which always leads to me shouting at the TV.

Technically, he was either shot when he was already dead, or he died as a result of being shot. It's a curiously unique usage, as no one is ever "knifed dead" or "drowned dead".

It's sloppy, at best.

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