On the CW channel they had an ad at the bottom of the screen. It read "See Ali McGraw in Love Storey."
love on the 5th floor perhaps.
On the CW channel they had an ad at the bottom of the screen. It read "See Ali McGraw in Love Storey."
That drives myself nuts!
.........Anyone notice this?
All of these posts are funny and stimulating. Speaking (or writing) or media errors, I guess it is not an error but newspaper writing drives me crazy. I cannot believe the writers that put 40-45 words in a sentence. It's like they are running out of ink printing commas and periods. I'm not sure there are rules about this but by the time I get half way through the sentence, I've lost the thought. Many times I go back and ask myself, "what are they saying"? Maybe they are saving typing space but this drives me nuts. Sometimes a sentence becomes a paragraph because it's so long. Anyone notice this?
DW uses "six of one, half dozen of another" several times a week. In a conversation yesterday, she must have used it half dozen times. Other than that, she's perfect.
That was a very common expression while I was growing up. Long ago, just for fun, I started saying "half of one, six dozen of the other" and I'm not at all sure that anyone has ever noticed.
A few times I've said "It's not rocket surgery," but I don't think anyone noticed, and if they did, they probably thought I just made a mistake.
People hear what they expect to hear.
Another example:
"But Obama also conceded there was much more work to do, adding "I don't think the country is stronger yet then it was when the economy was still booming and we didn't have the ". . .
The one that bugs me is when people use "myself" instead of "me".
You mean the "then" instead of "than?" If Obama was speaking, there's no way to know whether he said "then" or "than," so I assume the reporter just wrote the wrong one.
DW uses "six of one, half dozen of another" several times a week. In a conversation yesterday, she must have used it half dozen times. Other than that, she's perfect.
A few times I've said "It's not rocket surgery," but I don't think anyone noticed, and if they did, they probably thought I just made a mistake.
Of course, these are all arbitrary conventions...
But the order of the words (whether you say "Me and Tom" or "Tom and me") isn't rocket surgery, so I don't know why anyone gets that wrong ("Me and Tom went to the store").
Of course, these are all arbitrary conventions...
Still, you don't have to be Alfred Einstein to learn them.
He lowered himself from the horse gingerly. Gingerly is not an adverb, it is an adjective. Should be "He lowered himself from the horse in a gingerly manner".
Perhaps in this case it is a proper name. The error could be simply one of capitalization, as you show correctly in your second sentence above.He lowered himself from the horse gingerly. Gingerly is not an adverb, it is an adjective.
OK, this is hilarious!I think you mispelled grammer...