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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

46.0. "It bugged me" by VIA::LASHER () Mon Feb 04 1985 10:17

Sure enough, the new month brings new allegations of political corruption in
Massachusetts.

This morning, however, WBUR sank to a new journalistic low by accusing some
high official of having illegally "debugged" another's office.
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46.1VIA::LASHERTue Feb 05 1985 12:068
After hearing the "debugging story" repeated last night on WEEI, and again
this morning on both stations, I called them up to find out what they were
talking about.  Apparently, the FBI had put in the "bugs" in the first place,
and the Massachusetts official was accused of trying to interfere with the
federal investigation by removing the eavesdropping equipment.  Unfortunately,
by neglecting to mention this background information and by using the gadget
word "debug" instead of more descriptive language, the newswriters failed to
communicate.
46.2GRAFIX::EPPESTue Feb 05 1985 18:283
I hope you enlightened whoever you talked to about the true (??) meaning of
the word "debug"....
							-- Nina
46.3VIA::LASHERFri Feb 08 1985 09:4612
The "debugging" furor continues:

Yesterday, a radio news report predicted that the Massachusetts legislature
might outlaw or regulate "debugging" by state officials.

Meanwhile, back on the linguistic front:

This morning, the WBUR news writers were pretty careful to use English
(using "sweep for electronic surveillance equipment" instead of "debug"),
but went on to comment that the media was (sic) giving the issue a great
amount of attention, and that, in the particular case that provoked the
recent "debugging" furor, the only device that was found was "inoperable."