Word choice is important, particularly online where one slip-up can banish you to Internet infamy over a matter of keystrokes. That’s t…
With the arrival of spring, blockbuster movie season has gotten an early start with “Beauty and the Beast” and other films, music fans are making plans for recently announced summer festivals, and late-night TV continues to skewer the Trump administration.
Word choice is important, particularly online where one slip-up can banish you to Internet infamy over a matter of keystrokes.
That’s the lesson gold-medal Olympic figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi learned Monday night when she sent a well-meaning tweet wishing former competitor Nancy Kerrigan luck on her “Dancing With the Stars” debut.
“So excited for you,” Yamaguchi wrote. “Can’t wait to see you grace that ballroom floor, break a leg! ”
Never has the theater idiom “break a leg” been more inappropriately applied, given that Kerrigan’s skating career was nearly sabotaged when rival skater Tonya Harding’s then-husband hired someone to club her in the knee with a baton.
