RTE reporter Barry Lenihan interviewing Bishop Michael Router on the Claire Byrne Show yesterday on the scourge of drugs, said that the bishop was appraising the minister about the situation. Of course he should have said that the bishop was apprising the minister.
The moral of the story is always to use the simple word instead of the ‘fancy’ one.
But it’s not only journalists who make this error. Some people get confused with these two words. And it seems to happen when they are trying to sound important, patronising their listener, playing tricks with people.
Why not simply say inform or tell?
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