Bad Grammar: Caller Shares With the Ladies How He Contracted HIV
Background
TVC News is a 24-hour Nigerian news
channel based in Lagos, Nigeria. Your View is a daily morning talk show on TVC
News. It airs Mondays through Fridays and combines a variety of topics,
including lifestyle, politics and trending subjects on social media. The talk show
is usually anchored by Morayo Afolabi-Brown along with a bevy of other female
co-hosts. The TVC News YouTube channel has 1.2 million subscribers and has
posted more than 130,000 videos.
My Comments
The verb "contacted" is
incorrect in this context. The proper verb for acquiring a disease is
"contracted," not "contacted." Using "contacted"
implies communication rather than the transmission of a disease, leading to
confusion. This mistake changes the meaning of the sentence, suggesting that
the speaker communicated with the virus rather than became infected with it. There
are many other problems with this title. It is structured in a way that implies
the caller got the viral infection from the ladies and not that the caller is
having a conversation with the ladies about how the infection was acquired. Overall,
this is a qualitatively poor and confusing piece of writing.
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