Don’t get me wrong – I love George Clooney. Here’s the trouble. Right off the bat, George’s character says, in the World War Two setting, “We have been tasked with….”
Reality check.
In the WWII era, NO ONE had ever been “tasked with” anything. They might have been assigned the task of, or have been “given the task of” doing this or that. George’s new movie, Monuments Men, is set in the 1940s, back when the word “task” was a noun. They’re changing up the grammar rules, I guess.
Tasking? Or – as presented in the past tense – tasked? I’m sorry. That’s a made up word. Like gifting.
Engish, I realize, is a constantly changing language.
But it will be a good while before I snap a “selfie.”
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