It took many, many hours, but finally the BBC deleted this tweet overnight:
The phrase "severely depleted" provoked consternation and anger.
In fairness to the BBC, the words of the tweet were a shortened version of words spoken in the programme - "It was spoken by more than 10 million people. This vast number of speakers was severely depleted after the Holocaust", so it was just a very clumsy tweet, and the programme itself is very interesting indeed.
Oh well. Thanks for posting. It was an interesting programme for all that. My parents would sprinkle their conversation with the odd "Oy Gevalt!" Yiddish has a habit of lingering on.
ReplyDeleteI think I might take it up myself. (Not Yiddish, just the occasional Oy Gevalt)