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Joe Carillo's Desk => My Media English Watch => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on September 29, 2010, 12:03:25 AM

Title: “Jueteng” lords/sponsors should be “persecuted” rather than “prosecuted”?
Post by: Joe Carillo on September 29, 2010, 12:03:25 AM

Ms. Aurora Riel-Grimes in North Carolina sent in by e-mail last Sept. 26 this feedback about a Filipino columnist’s English: 

I think it was a columnist named Manalo who said that jueteng lords/sponsors should be “persecuted” rather than “prosecuted.” Of course, speaking in earnest, I believe they probably deserve both, but I believe this was plain error in the English vocabulary of that columnist.