I weep for our language, part 8.
From what is otherwise a very interesting article on NCAA recruiting rules as they are being applied to fan pages on Facebook: But dozens of Facebook groups are still up in plain site for current recruits, including Wall, and other top undecided basketball players such as Xavier Henry and Lance Stephenson. I suppose the redesigned [...]
I weep for our language, part 7.
Courtesy of Kevin at Fan Interference, we have BC basketball coach Al Skinner: “I tried to pre-warn them . . . We were capable of being this team and capable of being another team.” As Kevin points out, a warning that isn’t pre- is kind of useless. Reminds me of the old Bill Cosby routine [...]
I weep for our language (part 6)…
CNN’s Rob Marciano reports from hard-hit Galveston where some residents road out the storm. Seriously.
I weep for our language (part 5)…
CNN’s editing is so sloppy that in the link to an AP article on the problems posed by the apostrophe, they put the apostrophe in the wrong place: Curse ‘o the Irish: Apostrophes (link goes to a screen cap of the screw-up)
I weep for our language (part 4)…
Well, either for our language or for our system of jurisprudence … (Source) In her opening statement last month, prosecutor Ama Dwimoh asked jurors to reject any attempt to demonize the girl, describing her as a defenseless, innocent child who weighed only 36 pounds at her death. “He wasn’t no daddy,” Dwimoh said of Rodriguez. [...]
I weep for our language (part 3)…
Even the New York Times is losing its grip on our grammar: Witness John Branch’s Seeing Vulnerability in N.F.C. Foes, Giants Are Confident: And the Giants, boosted by a 7-1 road record and the knowledge that none of the five top seeds are currently on even a two-game winning streak, see reason to view their [...]
Yep, these are my readers…
A new feature here at the dish: Insulting emails from ESPN readers. Our first entry is high comedy, indeed: Your a dousche bag if you think the Astros are not a better team than when Wade took over. POOPura ran this team into the ground and is the main reason they team was in the [...]
I weep for our language (part 2)…
This one’s interesting, from a Newsday review of The Kite Runner film: “The Kite Runner” is the latest in a spate of smash bestsellers that have been transferred to the screen with a cautiousness usually reserved for the conveyance of holy relics and eggs. It’s generation-spanning plot combines one of the season’s favorite themes (the [...]
I weep for our language (part 1)…
From an Associated Press story on the death of Ike Turner: But over the years they’re genre-defying sound would make them favorites on the rock ‘n’ roll scene, as they opened for acts like the Rolling Stones. Who the hell wrote this? A third-grader?
