More astounding competence in journalism...

[aithne414]

"Aniston, about to end her run on the popular NBC show, is of Greek decent."

From our friends at the Associated Press. My God, people, I knew the difference between decent and descent at LEAST by the end of elementary school! *grumbles* The standards in journalistic writing continue to sink lower and lower...

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[apapercutbleeds]

too many people I know have been using good and well interchangeable and it is driving me CRAZY!

[apapercutbleeds]

haha and i suck and i spell things wrong in my post!

[aithne414]

Hehe, whee! When people ask me how I'm doing lately, I actually do say "well"... but I think it confuses some folks, cause they look like they expect more. :P Damn the corruption of our language!

[aeliakirith]

::The English teacher goes into convulsions.:: That is truly sad. Granted, I might not expect my sixth and seventh graders to know the difference between "descent" and "decent," but for a journalist not to know it is ridiculous.

Hey, Ali, look at it this way. If we ever give up on the science thing and the teaching thing, we should have no trouble getting reporting jobs. We're a cut above already, since we can actually spell.

[aithne414]

TOTALLY. That was once a career goal of mine, until I realized it probably wouldn't give me the intellectual challenge I craved. That sounds really dumb, doesn't it? :P But it's true. Anyway, we'd probably make more as journalists than we will in our current jobs... and how hard could it be to do what Dan Rather does? I mean, really. :)