Good eye, Heidi. The poor grammar not only applies to the Associated Press; it also applies to almost all of the newspapers I read. Carelessness with there and their, the use of non-words such as irregardless and confusion of verb tenses is all too common. Not long ago I read a newspaper quote that stated, ...should have rode heard... Awful!
A big part of my livelihood includes technical writing (Engineerese). The crap “professional journalists” get a pass on could get a poor joe like me fired, sued, or both.
Jimbo, I spent enough past years in tech classes and reading engineering manuals to know that ain't always the truth. I've scene sum and hurd sum gawdawful crap come from engineers, senior engineers and instructors of things engineered.
My wife hd a professor who used "pacific" to mean something in particular. I believe the word he searched for was "specific". I state that one because I once received a safety manual at a nuke construction plant that had that one in it about 30 times.
This was before spell check and computers, but not before proofreading!! Hell the Egyptians had proofreaders. They must have, I never heard of a mistake in their records.
I thought all engineers wore black pants, white socks and brown wingtips, unlike accountants who wear high-waters, Hush Puppies, carry slide rules on their belts and wear pocket protectors.
Watch the accountant generalizations there buddy! I should be wearing high-waters today.
Anybody wanna guess why?
Time's up. It's 25 degrees above average here today (we topped out at 55, it's still 50) and all of the snow is quickly turning into a moat around my building. I don't need snow tires on my car. I need to borrow someone's canoe to get home.
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I spot this kinda crap all the time. And it gets past the college educated journalism crowd.
Mores the pity.
Good eye, Heidi. The poor grammar not only applies to the Associated Press; it also applies to almost all of the newspapers I read. Carelessness with there and their, the use of non-words such as irregardless and confusion of verb tenses is all too common. Not long ago I read a newspaper quote that stated, ...should have rode heard... Awful!
hey what about us???
ice cycles
I'm not disregarding your valid point, Platypus. However, the photo described depicted icicles, not an ice cycle.
A big part of my livelihood includes technical writing (Engineerese). The crap “professional journalists” get a pass on could get a poor joe like me fired, sued, or both.
Jimbo,
I spent enough past years in tech classes and reading engineering manuals to know that ain't always the truth. I've scene sum and hurd sum gawdawful crap come from engineers, senior engineers and instructors of things engineered.
My wife hd a professor who used "pacific" to mean something in particular. I believe the word he searched for was "specific". I state that one because I once received a safety manual at a nuke construction plant that had that one in it about 30 times.
This was before spell check and computers, but not before proofreading!! Hell the Egyptians had proofreaders. They must have, I never heard of a mistake in their records.
I thought all engineers wore black pants, white socks and brown wingtips, unlike accountants who wear high-waters, Hush Puppies, carry slide rules on their belts and wear pocket protectors.
nerd -
Watch the accountant generalizations there buddy! I should be wearing high-waters today.
Anybody wanna guess why?
Time's up. It's 25 degrees above average here today (we topped out at 55, it's still 50) and all of the snow is quickly turning into a moat around my building. I don't need snow tires on my car. I need to borrow someone's canoe to get home.
Steve -
All engineers aren't spec writers.
English Professor said...
Good eye, Heidi.
Yeah, and nice legs too!
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