A couple funnies from comments on blogs:
'25% of all employees are pretty much debt-weight …'
and
'I spend my days applying for jobs which I don’t get and working at a job I HATE for minimum wage, which involves stalking shelves and not writing.' Oughta be easy to sneak up a a shelf, as they are immobile and insentient. That one, unfortunately, is from a journalism blog. Better the poor fool not get a job in the journalism trade.
And then, a bit of gaudy prose from a cigar site, describing a smoke – '… creamy, rich and mild at the same time it is so smooth to the palate that the smoke actually feels silky like chocolate milk, with hints of honey nuts and Maple.' Dunno if you'd wanna smoke that or eat it with strawberries for breakfast. Some of the silliness of wine has slopped over onto the honest seegar.
And, finally, this morning in the Vicad there was a subhed reading, 'Economic slump means less trees will be bought this year.' My goodness, a copy editor who doesn't know that trees are a count noun and get 'fewer' rather than 'less.' A small booboo but a telling one. I always want to blue-pencil the '10 items or less' signs in some stores, since items are also a count noun.
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And hoo boy, have you zeroed in on one of my pet peeves. "10 items or fewer" is what I must restrain myself from writing in a big black marker on those grocery aisle signs. I'm not surprised any more whatsoever by the goofs made in the VicAd. One thing that really worries me, though, is that the world as a whole is getting progressively - how do I put this - imbecilic, lacking in mental acumen, duller, you know - STUPIDER. Is that a word? It is now. Grrrrrr! People, if it didn't sink in the first time, go back to English 101 (or remedial) or risk looking foolish!
True, true, true.
And we really know those journalism students got jobs and we know where they are working...
Stupider makes more sense than 'funner'--I cannot believe how often I hear that word. You can slap 'er' on a lot of words and increase the intensity, but not on the word fun.
And while we're at it, stop using the word 'conversate' when you mean 'converse'. People, stop!
Sitting here listening to the local KAVU morning show. There is a story about a homeless family that is living in a motel. The reporter, who sounds like she's twelve and surely in her first real job, is describing the situation, "Her and her husband..."
They don't ALL work at the Victoria Advocate...
Yes, I suppose her live in the motel, as her husband lives in the motel. People, do you see the disagreement? Same with you and I and you and me. Which would properly stand alone with the verb? Ay-yi-yi....
I guess they DON'T all work at the VicAd, huh?
KAVU – or Channel Zero, as I usually style it – is painful, and picking on them would be like stomping puppies [except being mostly skinny bleached blondes they're not cute like puppies].
Oh...stomping on puppies...oh...
That little twit Emily Collins can cop some attitude. I guess what she lacks in size, she more than makes up for in mouth.
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