The overall decline of literacy poked me in the eye again this morning. I swung by Oleg's LiveJournal, and clicked on a link to a movie he was excited about seeing. I read the blurb with interest until I got to this sentence:
Observing all is The Writer (Bill Murray) an ex-patriot American who sees Fico being drawn into events as the revolution changes everything....which totally put me off my feed.
To the knuckle-walking troglodyte who has somehow got himself a job writing copy for the production company: Bill Murray's character may indeed be an "ex-patriot"; not having seen your flick, I don't know. I do know, however, that the word you were looking for was "expatriate", which is a noun meaning "One who has taken up residence in a foreign land."
My collection of split infinitives, dangling participles, run-on sentences, and excessive vernacular is hardly "writing", but compared to a lot of what I read today, I feel like a regular Hemingway. For gawd's sake, is there not a proofreader left alive in this country?
8 comments:
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Ain't it nuthin' but a shame? Kids these days ain't got no sense of thur langige.
that were funny, shane.
In fact, Tam, you are a brilliant writer. I am appalled by the spelling and grammatical errors that make it into print in major publications these days. Disappointing.
i dont c nething rong wif his engrish!!!!111
People these days...
Pfffft. I could care less...
I can't be the only one wanting to say, "Uh, Sparky, it's 'couldn't'. 'Could' means you care about it." Then again I guess I learned my lesson the first few times I said it and they looked at me like a dogs looks at someone the first time they hear Chinese.
No, there isn't. Instead, it's far more important to be from the left side of the aisle in the news business these days, but you already knew that.
the language is dead....
go into any fast food joint and order a small fry. You will be told that "medium is the smallest size we have."
I think Foamy says it best...
http://www.illwillpress.com/sml.html
Foamy's words of wisdom
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