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.
