The news-gathering arm of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC News, no longer requires its journalists to use proper words, especially when transcribing a quotation. Words ending in 'ing' can now have the 'g' replaced with an apostrophe, because that's how everyone speaks anyway.In an interview with Ron Fitzpatrick, the boss of a Newfoundland drug addiction support group, the news provider quoted him as saying: "They were only lookin' after probably like one quarter of the clients, or patients."
I get more offended than the next man about this kind of sloppiness, so here's what I read:
"I was er like splutterin' round all over the place lookin' furrr drugs 'n' then this guy was like 'you wanna work in this place what makes you peeps feel better' and I was like 'sure do' but then all the pipes burrrst 'n' so a quarter of the clients duhhh I mean patients didn' get no help no moreee."
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