I can't take it anymore. Part 2 (money, quote, difference)

[Algiz]

I was reading a review on Amazon about a book, and the reviewer wrote, "The poster of Arrowsmith on Jim's wall..." She mustn't have been into music as a teenager. heheheha

[Nicci6Squirrels]

This peeked my interest- comment taken from an "exceptional homeschooling" group

[southwest88]

Originally Posted by Nicci6Squirrels

This peeked my interest- comment taken from an "exceptional homeschooling" group

Yah, @ the more subtle phrases, Spellcheck is not your friend. Syntaxcheck might have caught this, it depends on how thorough the version is.


Spellcheck just looks @ each word & says: That's a word, that's a word, that's not a word ...

[Nicci6Squirrels]

So your saying you condone this, what if one of those 2 boys you have came home with this nonsense, oh thats right, it wouldnt happen, looks as if you and your husband have a stable home for your 2 "BOYS", why not give us some insight to this ludicracy, wheres the father ?, where did the parents fail as parents ?, is he adopted ? - This dude's got quite a (wrong) way with words and has taken a lot of artistic license with punctuation, as well. Baffling.

[suzy_q2010]

From a headline for an article at a well known website. I have been watching to see if anyone corrected the error. Nope.

It's just beautiful that there are people out there that are willing to give up there own time and come together to be there for somebody.

[Nicci6Squirrels]

I just received an email from a business I plan on visiting this upcoming week. They ask that I read the instructions for parking in, "it's entiraty."

[Retriever]

I am emmaculate about personal hygiene...

[southwest88]

Our local 'paper on animal rights @ the rodeo:


"We'll have some literature to pass out for anyone who is willing take it. It exploits the cruelty at what happens at rodeos"


Exploits seems to me to be the wrong word. Maybe explains, or explores ...


" ... when she found out through a radio commercial then her radar went up and she wanted ..."


Well, given that it's animal rights that she's concerned about, the metaphor about radar does seem a tad strange.


" ... he feels that groups such as PETA have become an overkill and some are looking for trouble"


An overkill in this context seems to be hilariously inappropriate. Anytime you get kill in a political statement, you've gone beyond the pale.

[Retriever]

From an article about a mysterious old grave which has a tombstone, but no coffin:

We were all left stretching our heads where the body could be....With the stone moved, and no more ledes to probe, the city put the issue to bed.

Ah, yes...journalism at its finest.
Or, perhaps in this case, it should be...at it's finest...

[southwest88]

Originally Posted by Retriever

From an article about a mysterious old grave which has a tombstone, but no coffin:

We were all left stretching our heads where the body could be....With the stone moved, and no more ledes to probe, the city put the issue to bed.

Ah, yes...journalism at its finest.
Or, perhaps in this case, it should be...at it's finest...

Head stretching? Sounds like the Maya (& all over the World, surprisingly, actually - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artifi...al_deformation) to me.

stretching our heads where the body could be - Very sloppy writing, & a physical impossibility, unless the deceased is a child or only a token body. Impossible to stretch a place, & if the physical body is there, unlikely that one would wish to stretch it, either. No sir, it just won't do, no matter how you look on it (with disgust, is my take).

I've seen ledes a couple of times recently. The online dictionary I looked @ said - the opening to a newspaper story, etc., meant to entice the reader to continue. If that's accurate, then the substitution of ledes for leads (the word I typically expect to find in this usage) is wrong, & should be disallowed.


& put the issue to bed in this context has to be some kind of cutesy usage (I detest cutesy usages). It's too much to ask that the writer be parodying his/her own clumsy handling of the language - (heads, body, stone, ledes, put to bed - all real journalistic argot, & a fair sampling of that specialized language. But too late, too late, to convince me that this person knows what they're doing.) To continue in this vein, the story should have showed up in the morgue, perhaps with a nice line drawing of a pietà to top it all off. Memento mori would make a good headline ...