Thursday, October 4, 2012

The Case of the Illegible Ineligible Player


There was a time when newspapers where celebrated as a standard for grammar and spelling. Those days, apparently, have come and gone.

In a story published today, the Journal Gazette’s sports editor Greg Jones tells us the Warsaw High School soccer team will have to forfeit seven games for using a player that was not eligible to play. However, Mr. Jones, most likely a product of public education, confuses the word “ineligible” with similar, yet totally unrelated word “illegible”. 




For those of you who may have been classmates of Mr. Jones, “ineligible” is defined as: not eligible: as
a : not qualified for an office or position
b : not permitted under football rules to catch a forward pass<an ineligible receiver>

illegible” is defined as: not legible : INDECIPHERABLE <illegible writing>

I’m sure that eliminating all those editors and fact checkers seemed like a good idea at the time.



1 comment:

  1. If you wanted to get the point across, instead of using definitions you should have used pictures.

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