In a panel discussion in Columbia University last week, commemorating “60 Years of Nakba – The Catastrophe of Palestine 1948-2008,” Lila Abu Lughod, a professor of anthropology and gender studies at the university, emotively told the audience how her father, Ibrhaim, had been expelled from his hometown of Jaffa in Palestine in May 1948.
Expelled? This is not exactly how Ibrhaim Abu Lughod himself described the circumstances of his flight in a 1990′s television documentary he prepared and presented with his friend and colleague Edward Said:
There was a Belgian ship, and one of the sailors, a young man, looked at us – and the ship was full of people from Jaffa, some of us were young adults – and he said: “Why don’t you stay and fight?” I have never forgotten his face and I have never had one good answer for him.
Well, it could have been worse. It could have read:
Glad to know that Mr. Trager is so impeccable a typist as never to have transposed two letters. Wow! And what a grasp of essential matters!! So who shd be embarrassed?
Jennifer Rubin writes “Kristen.” Jonathan Tobin writes “Kirsten.”
I say “tomato.”
Seems Alexander Almasov can’t recognize certainty, something Mr. Trager was pointing out regarding such a fine appointment, and Mrs. Clinton’s inability to prove certain…
A.A. “shd” be embarrassed..
Maybe Hillary ran style check and it complained that she was using “Kirsten” twice in successive sentences.
Kristen Shishten, Kristan, Shirstan. I am just glad Sweet Sweet Princess Caroline got da boot from Paterson.
This is highly important and newsworthy. Thank you for blogging about it.
Those who mock, however gently, the pointing out of these errors, forget the woman was a serious contender for the Presidency and with her finger on the trigger perhaps attention to detail should not be neglected?
Neocons are truly desperate, with nothing to offer, so they unleash the brilliance of Trager. Will Hillary ever recover?
I generally find calling an isolated misspelling or grammar lapse to the writer’s attention is generally used by another commenter as one upmanship or a gotcha to avoid such commenter’s having to address the substance of the misspeller’s (not a typo; a neologism, let’s say) argument. Like Alex’s “So who shd be embarrassed” sentence fragment & typo in # 2 . BTW, so saying, I would ask what was the purpose of that site which produced The “Bushism” of The Day?
But, absent mean, divisive politics, most intelligent people would think that the misspelling of an important person’s name in a congratulatory public release, especially when, right before this misspelling, it had been written correctly, is sloppy. Or, worse, a sign of “we don’t care enough about this upstart nobody to check the spelling of her name”.
Oh, I get it. Hilary, Hilliary, Hillary, whatever, is “Brilliant” & above criticism. And by extension, so is every member of her staff. And Bish, Bsh, Bush, whatever, & the GOP are morrybund, mormonbund, moribund, whatever. (And, yet O once more, Commentary is Bund!) End of story.