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[sigma7]

From everyone's favorite Hindu newspaper, the, er, Hindu: The fourth paragraph in a report “Viagra potentially to help depressed women as well” (“Newscape” page, July 23, 2008) was “The women were told to take a pill one to two hours for eight weeks …”, leading to queries. It was an editing error. The sentence should have been “The women were told to take a pill one to two hours before sex for eight weeks ….”

Also of note: the Standard-Examiner out of Utah is looking for page designers "with a solid knowledge of grammer [sic]" -- knowledge of InDesign/Photoshop and a college degree are all "helpful, but also not required." This may be the last job open in the field of print journalism.

And the current front-runner for Typo of the Year: The Valley News either misspells its own name, or is appealing to its sizable Serpentine-American readership. Hrm. Am considering the viability of a web-script that replaces letters with multiple copies of the same letter. Go for that Cobra Commander/Kobra effect.

Comments

[brightrosefox.livejournal.com]

Are you a member of grammar_whores? Because you should totally join and post this there.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

I try not to be a grammar fascist, in part because I like the relaxed and carefree diction used in an ironic or informal context (and in part because I'm sure I'm missing some of the finer points of grammar). Still. This intrigues me. *watches*

If you'd like, you can post it, though. I'd feel guilty, speaking as someone who persists in using the word "y'all" in casual conversation.

[brightrosefox.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love ironic and informal diction and I'm still a grammar fascist. As long as the folks there know you're being ironic and informal, it's cool.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

I think my favorite newspaper error (for which I was not directly responsible) has to be this one (scroll down all the way): “In Thursday’s Collegian, a mug shot on Page One identified Osama bin Laden as Pat Bosco, our dean of student life,” read the item in part.

What they fail to note is that this was the September 11, 2002 issue, so a pretty monumental flub. The original story's lost to posterity, as apparently the third college newspaper on the Web can't be arsed to keeps its static HTML archives online. (mutter mutter)

[brightrosefox.livejournal.com]

*blink* Oh... oh, my.