At her Speechwriter-Ghostwriter blog on February 25, 2020 Jane Genova had a post
titled Like Michael Bloomberg, anyone can be nailed to cross for
language/behavior light years ago. Her first two sentences were:
“It’s not only dysfunctional relatives who keep bringing up
what allegedly or really did happen light years ago. What we’re witnessing is
that in politics there is no statute of limitations on what others claim had
been said/done decades ago.”
But whatever Mr. Bloomberg did was on this planet, not in a
galaxy far, far away. A light-year is an astronomical unit for distance, not for
time. She should have said decades both times – in the title and text. It only
takes a minute to check and not be guilty of bad writing.
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