ElzaHub just turned on Jeopardy, which is on commercial. So we get a commercial for a local news program, which is breaking a story about a case of bacterial meningitis somewhere in the Cleveland area.
Except when they showed the graphic for the story, we apparently have a reported case of the very scary, very prevalent:
Bacterial MEMINGITIS
:smack:
Do these people not have editors? How in the hell did that get on the air without ONE person catching it?
E.
Tight deadlines. We’re human. It happens. Some typos are easy to miss, and m/n is one of them.
Watch the tickers at the bottom of the all news channels, Fox, CNN, etc. Chances are you will come across a grammatical error or two.
Off topic, ElzaB, how goes the gestating?
Memingitis is when enough people say a mistaken word or phrase enough times that it catches on and takes on a life of its own.
Yes, there are honest mistakes in journalism. Some of them are funny
(In my view, though, in television news, more of those mistakes are the result of genuine stupidity and ignorance than of mere error. And, heh, what do you expect from local TV news?)
Mistakes happen, I just thought it was amusing that it happened on such a huge graphic 
. And ElzaHub didn’t notice it until we rewound and I pointed the mistake out to him, so it probably wasn’t noticeable by a lot of people.
When my roommate was writing for his first show, it took them three weeks to get the credit crawl right - his name was spelled incorrectly those entire three weeks. And these were people he’d worked with for several years by then :smack: .
Pretty good, aside from Satan invading my body at times:D - which is why I’m apparently getting pissy at stupid things like the news reports 
. But my fatigue has lightened up considerably, so I’m hoping Satan will be leaving the building for longer periods of time. (Thanks for asking:)).
E.
While there are, undoubtedly, spelling and grammatical errors to be seen on the local news, this is not one of them. What you have seen was one of the first major victories of the uber-politically correct. You see, it’s just not right to call a gender indifferent disease by a gender specific name. "meningitis** leads us to believe that only men suffer from this affliction. Science tells us that this is not true. Women just as often as men fall prey to this serious disease. Several ideas to rectify this inequity were bandied about - “womeningitis” caused the pendulum to swing too far in the other direction, while “personingitis” just sounds silly. The substitution of “m” for “n” was found to be effective in this case, hence “memingitis”. The beauty of this solution is that is is applicable to a number of non-PC medical names, not to “memtion” other areas of the language. Be on the lookout for “memstruation” and “memopause” to make their network debut soon.
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