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Eventually people will become media savvy enough to recognize weasel words. In case you're not:
'Canada is considering joining the US' is not wrong, it's just misleading.
The reading that most people will take from it is "Cananda is considering joining the US and that consideration is leading them to join the US" as this is generally how 'considering' is used in English.
But, it isn't technically untrue. The 'Canada should join the US' topic has been a pretty hot topic in Canada. Overwhelmingly people are against it, but you can't be against something without considering it.
'Considering' is a weasel word that allows for people to imply one thing without technically lying.
You'll also see 'after' used a lot as a weasel word.
"Stock prices fall after oil futures increase" implies a causal link (i.e. that oil futures rising caused stock prices to fall) when, technically, it only states a temporal link: Oil Futures rose and then 24 hours later Stock prices fell. So stock prices fell after oil futures increased.
It's just as technically correct to write "Stock prices rise after local farmer's prized cow gives birth". Sure, those are two things that happened and the sentence is describing the correct order of things but it implies that these two events are linked in some way.
Hopefully this makes you one of today's lucky 10,000
Same deal with the word "entitlements". MAGOPs like to throw it around like it's a pejorative term. "Entitlement programs like Social Security..." Bitch, everyone who's paid into those programs is entitled to receiving those benefits because that's what an entitlement is. It's not the same as saying "President Trump feels he is entitled to a free, used 747 because the interior design looks like a whore house with wings."
But I thought technically correct was the best kind of correct?!