This has nothing to do with mental health (other than the fact that it has been bugging the crap out of me). After the tragic I-35 bridge collapse the news reporters have all been talking about the "EE-mediate" order to review the structural integrity of bridges.
There is no such freakin' word as "EE-mediate"!!! There is a word pronounced "EM-mediate" (immediate). The origins of the word are as follows: the prefix "im" which descends from the Latin prefix "in" -- meaning "not"; and, the Latin word "medius" meaning "in the middle" from which we get such words as "mediate", "Mediterranean" (middle of the world), "median", etc. Thus, the word "immediate" means "not middling" or, to put it into the modern English vernacular, "faster than moderate/without delay".
"EM-mediate" means something. "EE-mediate" means nothing other than the fact that the reporter reading the teleprompted message cannot even pronounce the words written for them correctly.
I call for an ee-mediate change to this.
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