Buck's English: There Is No Good Domestic Violence

By Gene Owens“It appears to be an extreme case of domestic violence gone awry,” reported the Canadian Broadcasting Co., referring to an episode of far-north violence. Jim McCauley, of Edmond, picked up the broadcast as it rode a mass of Arctic air into Oklahoma. “Is there a correct form of domestic violence?” he asked as he stopped by Curly’s Soonerco to check on his coolant. Off hand, Buck can’t think of any domestic violence he would refer to as “good.” Buck reckons the CBC was running afoul of Buck’s Law, which Professor Claptrap calls “The Law of Cerebro-Syntactical Correspondence”: Sloppy thinking leads to sloppy language, and vice versa. To go awry means to veer off the correct course.Read more on NewsOK.com

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