Mots inappropriés

A senior police officer on Christmas Eve described a deadly shooting attack outside a pub in Liverpool which killed one person and wounded several others as RECKLESS. The police officer also said that the murder was UNPALATABLE because it happened on Christmas Eve.

Do you have any other interesting examples of obtrusively inappropriate words in certain situations?

That football team whose plane crashed in the Andes? They were presumed dead and a few months later a few were rescued alive and the world found out they ate the dead to survive.

Well, Fun Fact: The first day they ate human flesh the goalie for the team said...

"It could use a little salt"

True story.

@FMF

Can't think of any specific cases at the moment, although I do believe some news writers and headline writers have been corrupting the English language (the first with their poor grasp of standard written English; the second with their unwarranted sensationalism -- and their editors deserve a smack-down not just for their text-related failures as editors, but also for allowing and even promoting the inflation of minor and inconsequential disagreements into putatively headline-worthy stories).

@kevin-eleven said
@FMF

Can't think of any specific cases at the moment, although I do believe some news writers and headline writers have been corrupting the English language (the first with their poor grasp of standard written English; the second with their unwarranted sensationalism -- and their editors deserve a smack-down not just for their text-related failures as editors, but als ...[text shortened]... g the inflation of minor and inconsequential disagreements into putatively headline-worthy stories).

During the Iran / Iraq war Chemical Ali (Saddams military commander) was asked why he had gassed over a million Kurds. He laughed and said that's rubbish, there was no more than a hundred thousand died.