I hope it’s just a proofreading error
Bookworm on Dec 18 2006 at 12:58 pm | Filed under: Education, Silly Stuff
I’m coming to the conclusion that one of the kids’ teachers combines being somewhat ill-informed with being a really bad proofreader. I think the following sentence, coming from her Christmas email to parents, reflects the latter problem: “The holidays are surly here.” (Although I have to admit to being somewhat surly during the holidays myself!)
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Here’s one. When writing to an “altitudinally challenged” colleague, one of my friends ended his letter with, “Looking forward to hearing from you shorty.” Oops.
Last week I was at a Christmas luncheon of a major corporation that you would recognize if I named it. A youngish female vice president said the following to a ballroom full of people: ” . . . and he has saw how it has been improving . . .” I was stunned, but even worse, I didn’t see that anyone else was.
If it was used as headline in the Business Section, it would be almost as good as the classic “Fertile Woman Dies At Climax”
Al
I’m terrified to ask what that headline meant, Al.
Teachers who can’t speak, write or parse drive me batty; I’d list some examples from my own experience but I don’t want to go off on a long winded rant..
Like Michael, I’m scared to know what the headline means. I can’t get any reasonable sense out of it.
Since your post will undoubtedly spawn a long list of pet linguistic peeves, here’s mine: a colleague who graduated from a super college but says “supposubly” and was puzzled and annoyed with I pointed out that there’s no “b” in that word. I’ve heard it many times since.
chiming in . . . how about a subsiderary of a major company instead of a subsidiary . . . this from my elec. engineer/MBA husband drives me nuts -
OK, on a more positive note – I was communicating with my son’s high school physics teacher, recently. Found out that she’s a PhD Medical Engineer. I was impressed. I don’t know how well she teaches but my son certainly is being taught by an expert.