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Treated humane? #1 (permalink) Sat Oct 29, 2005 11:56 am   Treated humane?		  
Hi, this is what I have just heard on CNN:

"... to make sure the detainees are treated humane."

Shouldn't it be

"... to make sure the detainees are treated humanely"?
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Humane/ly #2 (permalink) Sat Oct 29, 2005 12:24 pm   Humane/ly		  
Hi Andreana,

I agree with you. It would need a great stretch of imagination to accept the adjective form here.

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