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Upstate South Carolina Dentist Shot And Killed By Police
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The phrase “outside of” is an ignorant and awkward grammatical construction. Whenever it appears, it always indicates that the writer spent a great deal of his (or her) class-time asleep (or stoned) during grades 6-12. While not as common as the chalk-on-a-blackboard epidemic of dumb-asses speaking and writing “between he and I”(and its hundreds of brain-dead variations), it definitely was jarring to run across such a mistake on a website whose founder consistently touts himself as being FAR more intelligent and FAR better educated than the average journalist or reader.
I’m surprised that someone who is such a prescriptivist that they object to a North American idiom that is recognized as such by the OED would resort to the unnecessary practice of using all caps to emphasize an intensifier the job of which is to add emphasis.
I guess we all have our linguistic peccadillos. Perhaps we should be more accepting of others’.
PERFECT ……. oops, there I go again with my prescriptivist hat on.
As for the content of the article, I do hope FITS News will stay on this story. I have come to find that the official version of events put forth by LEOs is often not the truth, and I am skeptical of not only the account of the shooting but of a January 2013 arrest that never led to a conviction. And if the dentist had been living under a drug charge for eight months with no hearing or trial, that says something about South Carolina’s commitment to the Constitution of the United States.
LEOs??? LEOs???? I don’t recall any mention of African wildlife in the story …… just kidding, Upstate Parent.
But I couldn’t resist.
Your point is well-taken.
Healey was a drug addict. The drug arrest came from when he broke into a fast food restaurant in the middle of the night. Police responded to alarm and dude had drugs on him. Also, his dental license was suspended after that.