Bad writing in news?
Newspapers used to be the only news source where we could find run-on sentences to put on the screen in front of a classroom and discuss as bad examples. Thanks to the Web, now television websites can be just as good a source of misplaced modifiers, awkward phrasing, missing parts of speech or misleading leads.
He then rounds some up. It’s also fun to search Google News for commonly misspelled/misused words or phrases:
Wreckless, seperate, mute point, intensive purposes, etc.
I shouldn’t throw stones from my glass house since I’m prone to spelling errors. But, hey, I don’t have an editor.
August 30th, 2005 at 8:45 am
We’re all in tents and porpoises.
August 30th, 2005 at 10:34 am
Or is it fur all intense porpoises? I always forget.
August 30th, 2005 at 10:44 am
Are you taking me for granite?
August 30th, 2005 at 12:30 pm
Ewe pacifically axed me that this passed weak.
August 30th, 2005 at 12:49 pm
Yes, eye did. It is a cat ass trophy.
August 30th, 2005 at 3:16 pm
That is the most annoying thing in the world. When i type in a word to google (because i use google as my spell checker), and it returns 50,000 webpages with the MIS-spelled word on it. I know it is wrong, so i have to go use a dictionary on the web to figure it out.
August 30th, 2005 at 7:34 pm
Is 2 greater then 1. If so, than explain.