The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #132499   Message #4087784
Posted By: Jos
13-Jan-21 - 02:44 PM
Thread Name: BS: Language Pet Peeves
Subject: RE: BS: Language Pet Peeves
I did google the headline. I didn't find anything with that exact headline, but I did find a story about a mother being upset because her child's grandparents, who had been looking after the child for the whole of the summer, had taken the child with them to church.
Was that the complaint you were referring to? If so, why the square brackets, which lead the reader to imagine all kinds of appalling behaviour.
I was taken, and later sent, to church as a child. I don't think it did me any harm although I am no longer a believer (if I ever really was). But as so much of our history, music, literature and so on has been influenced by the church and its beliefs, I appreciated having some knowledge of what that basis consists of.