Posts Tagged ‘bad english’
Special recipe
We're going here for dinner on Friday to celebrate a friend's birthday. A snapshot from their Web page: Cubana And I'm sort of left wondering how this particular phrasing came about. (Read the red-word paragraph.) I mean, did a customer really once come to their restaurant having seen the original version of the Web site…
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I'm all flushed. Seriously, it's hot in this apartment despite the chill outside, but I'm all verklempt because I've finally got a query letter I think I can live with. I'm sending it off tomorrow to an agent. They're local to where I live, which was part of the appeal in some strange way —…
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Vengeance is mine! Or, at least some version of it Spam is scary. Almost as scary as bad spelling. But once again, how come the title of the Slashdot entry is spelled wrong, while the tag is spelled right? At least uniform bad spelling would make sense.
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Ineffectual This pains me. And it's not because of the adoption element. And it's not just because of the use of "affect" in the wrong context. It's because someone uses it correctly in the lead, and bolloxes it up for the headline and the URL. Gah! UPDATE: Fixed!
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