It’s one thing in a text to a buddy. It’s another where you are a professional media outlet, quoting another person, and publishing for the world to see. Unless the lawyer actually wrote or said it that way (which I doubt) and even if so then there should be a ‘sic’ inserted.
I wouldn’t be so up on my high horse here but it’s NW, and I hate NW.
I don't hate them. I simply condescend to them condescending to us. I'm an American and have no patience for that faux class snobbery, or the parental purchasing of social class. Lived in London for several years as a young man and had my fill of that BS quickly. I'm savage when I run into it in DC.
Upon reflection, I believe it's quite possible that the Daily NU staffer who tweeted that actually is a sufficient ignoramus to believe that the phrase "in devoted service" actually is "into voted service."
If you look at the actual article online it quoted Webb as writing "in devoted service".
Former Northwestern football head coach Pat Fitzgerald filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the University and President Michael Schill in Cook County court Thursday. Chicago-based attorneys Dan Webb and Matthew Carter announced that Fitzgerald will seek more than $130 million in...
dailynorthwestern.com
Finally, since we're kicking NW's withered carcass as it writhes on the ground, I recall watching the end of an NW football game in 1995, the season when they finally won the conference. Star RB Darnell Autry was interviewed after the game. I was in B-school at the U of C at the time and my roommate was a good (and properly articulate) Indian guy who'd gone to Stanford undergrad.
Autry actually said "I don't intend any
arrogancy..." and we both fell out laughing. We got a lot of mileage out of mocking him for the remainder of the school year. There's your top-drawer NW education!!