I read in a news story online today that, “(so and so) wanted to echo the same sentiment.”

I was thinking of looking up “echo” in the dictionary, but I decided I sort of didn’t really need to.  Could one echo a different sentiment?

“Express” is the word this guy was searching his keyboard for, eh?  “I want to express the same sentiment.”  But, I guess echo just sounded too cool to pass up.

It kinda cracks me up when someone tries so hard to sound smart by adhering to what he perceives to be some grammar convention, and then totally blows it.

Today’s example is:  “Don’t end a sentence with a preposition.”

Now, I think most will agree that this is certainly not a hard and fast rule, though it’s good to keep it in mind sometimes.

We can have fun with this one.  For instance, “This situation is one up with which I will not put.”

Anyway, today, I heard an esteemed U.S. legislator, discussing Ed Snowden, say:

He clearly has committed some offenses for which the government is ready to prosecute him for.

Oooops.