Rant. 'Delays reported ACROSS THE GLOBE???'

[elleng]

The world perched on the back of a giant TORTOISE?

AROUND THE GLOBE! AROUND THE GLOBE! AROUND THE GLOBE!

[Orrex]

1. "Around The Universe" is my favorite Beatles song

[BrklynLiberal]

2. The abuse of the English language by purportedly educated media and talking heads

is astounding. Rules that I learned in grammar school are being ignored everywhere..Newscasts, commercials and commentary.
No one knows what an adverb is these days. And forget about the distinction between fewer vs less.

[NYC_SKP]

3. Me too, the fewer/less thing irks me no end.

It's not that fucking hard to use the correct term, FFS.

x(

[tsuki]

9. Mine is hundred/and. nt

[Zynx]

4. Hardly the worst abuse I've seen.

[elleng]

7. ABUSE?

Its not ABUSE, its 'merely' demonstrating ignorance.

[madinmaryland]

5. I'm sorry, but Maryland is not to blame for the delays. Delaware, yes, but

not Maryland.

[elleng]

8. hahahaha, mad!

[depakid]

6. Supposedly, it's been a mess in Sydney

We have to fly this week out of SYD- but thankfully it's through the domestic terminals to Perth in WA.

One can only imaging what some of the major US international hubs must be like.

[stray cat]

10. No flights from India and China west bound

[lynne]

11. Actually, I believe that "across" is the appropriate language for this particular situation -

The cloud and the delays are not surrounding the planet, they are not circling the globe. The cloud and the delays seem to be in a linear fashion across Europe. Seems to me that the word "across" is more appropriate in this situation.

Just because a globe is a sphere doesn't mean that something must always go entirely around it.

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. Good point (nt)