Newspaper Death

[brad]

When I read blogs, I'm more tolerant to grammatical mistakes. But the AP? C'mon:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/19/ap-obama-gores-foreign-po_n_188770.htmlRead more... )

Comments

[wasdely]

Reminds me of my favorite newsgroup. Apostrophe usage is a great way to instantly suss out someone's intelligence and ignore everything further they have to say.

[brad]

That's wonderful. :)

[pne]

apihna! Is that still around? My word.

I used to read it back when I still had time for Usenet.

[jope]

There are plenty of valid reasons to call for the death of the newspapers. However... despite its name, there is no printing press directly associated with the AP. They sell their material to any org that will license it, be they old-and-busted newspaper or online-only new-hotness like HuffPost.

Anyway. One spurious apostrophe is pretty benign. If there isn't already one (probably is), there should be a Cake Wrecks analogue for mangled headlines.

[jope]

Yes, but I want those headlines in a dedicated feed, that I may sip from the firehose at my leisure. =P

[loic]

you mean "emphasis mine"? :-P

[brad]

Heh, yeah. What's the name of that law where any written rant about grammar contains a grammatical mistake itself?

Fortunately I don't write for the AP.

I blame typing on a bus with sun on the screen. :P

[waider]

Rule #-6: Every spelling flame will inevitably itself contain a misspelling, usually in the very word being flamed about; every grammar flame will itself contain non-parsable components. You Have Been Warned.
From the net.legends FAQ, although the copy I have floating around on a disk somewhere was a standalone textfile.

[crucially]

You read Eats,Shoots,Leaves ?

[henrylyne]

It's even documented on your homonyms page:
http://www.livejournal.com/resources/homonyms.bml

[brad]

Hah, yeah.

Oh, btw, you guys broke screened comments in LiveJournal. When I get a screened comment now, I can't directly reply to it when it's screened, thus unscreening it. I have to press unscreen first, then reload the page (defeating the whole AJAX-y nature of it), then click "(Reply)", because you changed the "Reply" link to "Unscreen these". Useless!

Plz to be unbreaking LiveJournal kthx. :)

[henrylyne]

One man's broken is another man's improvement ;)

I posted your feedback for others to see, apparently there are other people who dislike the same changes, but for different reasons.