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It seems like only yesterday that I was talking about those oddball typographic errors in which the writer adds or deletes a pair of echoed letters, and look! Here's another one! Right here!
In the case the link is gone or someone corrects it (not likely), the offending bit:
"Kimberly Jones (who some of you might know as the slightly-clothed rapper Lil’ Kim) has just been sentenced to 12 months in prison for lying to a grand jury about her friends’ involvement in a 2001 shooting outside the Hot 97 radio station studio. No doubt Kim is devasted — going down for perjury completely lacks street cred. Even Martha Stewart’s insider trading tastes hardcore in comparison."
"Devasted". So easy to do, so hard to let stand if you use a spell-checker.
Also; prison would probably do the putative chanteuse in question some good, since it'll give her a year in which she can't get any more plastic surgery. She used to look like a fairly normal person, and in that picture she looks like one of the Spitting Image puppets. Girlfriend is a big fan of the needle and the knife.
See? I can talk about stuff besides the English language! I have range!
But I also have to note another error in the quoted passage: that third word ought to be "whom", not "who". Tsk. What are they teaching kids in school these days if not grammar?
In the case the link is gone or someone corrects it (not likely), the offending bit:
"Kimberly Jones (who some of you might know as the slightly-clothed rapper Lil’ Kim) has just been sentenced to 12 months in prison for lying to a grand jury about her friends’ involvement in a 2001 shooting outside the Hot 97 radio station studio. No doubt Kim is devasted — going down for perjury completely lacks street cred. Even Martha Stewart’s insider trading tastes hardcore in comparison."
"Devasted". So easy to do, so hard to let stand if you use a spell-checker.
Also; prison would probably do the putative chanteuse in question some good, since it'll give her a year in which she can't get any more plastic surgery. She used to look like a fairly normal person, and in that picture she looks like one of the Spitting Image puppets. Girlfriend is a big fan of the needle and the knife.
See? I can talk about stuff besides the English language! I have range!
But I also have to note another error in the quoted passage: that third word ought to be "whom", not "who". Tsk. What are they teaching kids in school these days if not grammar?
posted by pyramus | 6:40 AM
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