West Penn Today - The back Line

[John Swindler]

Sadly, the same can be said for Howard White.


>From: "Fred W. Schneider III" <fschnei at supernet.com>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: Re: West Penn Today - The back Line
>Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 19:29:36 -0400
>
>Inside joke to John Swindler:  Where is Frank Goldsmith when you need him?
>
>brathke at juno.com wrote:
>
> > And I have a similar pet peeve, although it relates to pomposity of the
> > spoken, rather than the written, word.
> >
> > Broadcast journalism has always taught that the the emphasis in station
> > identification should be on the STATION, not the verb, yet I continue to
> > hear - especially on public radio - "This IS station XYZ", rather than
> > the proper "THIS is station XYZ."
> >
> > Enough on that, back to trolleys...
> >
> > Bob 7/10
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 11:30:08 -0400 "Edward H. Lybarger"
> > <twg at pulsenet.com> writes:
> > > I have a major pet peeve.  It involves the continued use of the
> > > highly
> > > pompous and insulting "THE West Penn," "THE This," "THE That" that
> > > railfans
> > > like to use to assert their familiarity with subjects.  Yes, some of
> > > the
> > > companies promoted themselves like this, West Penn included, in the
> > > early
> > > years.  It was a promotional tactic employed to intimidate the
> > > public into
> > > believing a company was more important and/or more powerful than was
> > > actually the case. But West Penn had the good taste to cease it at
> > > an early
> > > date and call themselves the West Penn System or the West Penn
> > > Railways
> > > Company, as appropriate, which frankly sound more prosperous that
> > > the phony
> > > appellation.  Besides, the other is bad English.
> > >
> > > OK, nothing personal, but it needed to be said.
> >
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