Saturday, December 26, 2015

RTE's unique status

RTE's Keelin Shanley introducing Peter Sutherland at the Michael Littleton Talk last evening at the RTE studio in Montrose said:

".... In a very unique way..."

Someone at RTE should explain the meaning of unique.

But such an error is far outweighed by the talk Mr Sutherland gave on the evening and which was broadcast on RTE Radio 1 after the lunchtime news today.

Thank you RTE.

1 comment:

Póló said...

There are circumstances where "unique" can be qualified. One can be unique by certain criteria and not by others. One can thereby be more or less unique.

That was a revelation to me too. Was shot back at me when I made the same criticism as you.

Seems reasonable.

Would need, however, to see the full context to know if Keelin is off the hook or not. Suspect not.

Suddy has his fingers in many pies, not all of them savoury.

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