Re: [FH] Breaking News - Margaritifer Now a Warzone

KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de wrote:
> 
> Beth.Fulton@csiro.au schrieb:
> > In a scene repeated around the globe this morning, embeds
> > from the NGT joined the growing exodus for Mars. This morning, at
> the
> > Harlow spaceport, we saw shuttle after shuttle and pod after pod
> > pick up thousands of Anglian soldiers, lifting them to orbit for
> > transfer to troop ships headed for Mars.
> 
> Just a minor quibble: As far as I understand the word, "Exodus",
> whether the original Biblical one, or the post-WWII Exodus to Israel,
> are evacuations or flights, not really the start of a deliberate
> military operation. You could describe Dunkirk as an Exodus, but not
> the embarkation for D-Day.

The definition of 'exodus' is "a large scale departure of people". So
in this case it probably fits okay. 

However, if it's only a minor quibble, you gotta give Beth's field
reporter
some credit. How many field/news reporters get more facts wrong than
right
in stories? ;-)  In some of my fiction news pieces (which another will
be
coming out soon, set a couple decades or so before Beth's current
postings)
I purposefully put in some erroneous and/or contradictory bits (even
spelling
errors in one or two instances), which a couple of alert listers called
me
on. ;-)

Mk