Cato's Grammar Grumble

[Karl Henning]

During a trip along Ohio's back roads to Lake Erie, we went past a farm that had a sign by the road.  The sign said the same thing on both sides:

"Genes for sale."

I told Mrs. Cato we should stop and buy some DNA sequences!   0:)

That's one twisted sign 

[Scion7]

"Genes For Sale"

Maybe some woman was selling her husband and didn't punctuate properly?

[Karl Henning]

Or, she was polyandrous, and insisted on marrying a man only if his name was Eugene.

[North Star]

https://www.youtube.com/v/xf8zep5BADs   https://www.youtube.com/v/v0bds2vFg0M

https://www.youtube.com/v/2E7stjbXGgg

[Cato]

"Genes For Sale"

Maybe some woman was selling her husband and didn't punctuate properly?

Or, she was polyandrous, and insisted on marrying a man only if his name was Eugene.

  Both good possibilities!  Of course, maybe the owner is a "Frankenfarmer" and has nothing against "Genetically Modified Food."

I was just jarred by some bad grammar in the British offering on PBS called Arthur and George: I believe it was the Conan Doyle character who was speaking.

"...with my wife and I..."   

I do not believe Sir Arthur would have made such a mistake!      If people stopped and thought: "Does anyone say: 'He wants to talk with I' ?"  then this error would fade away.

[Karl Henning]

But I like hanging chads.

Damn sloppy journalism:

. . . the notorious "hanging chad" affair that shook the country in 2000 and propelled George W Bush into the White House, experts on electoral procedures are warning.

I am not at all convinced that it was any matter of propulsion, but it was certainly not L'affaire tchad which propelled him there.

[jochanaan]

Damn sloppy journalism:

I am not at all convinced that it was any matter of propulsion, but it was certainly not L'affaire tchad which propelled him there.

More like, a tame Supreme Court.

[Ken B]

More like, a tame Supreme Court.

Piffle. Aside from anything else, you know they did do post facto recounts, right? Which Bush won.

Here's a test for you. The USSC rejected the recount. What was the vote?

It was 7-2. The 5-4 was on another issue, about further recounts and timing.

[Karl Henning]

Well, we are in effect demonstrating why it is understandable that a UK journo could garble the facts 

[Karl Henning]

Good God, Vanessa:

She also offered a strong explanation for one of the defining characteristics of
the race so far: why non-politicians, including she, Trump and retired
neurosurgeon Ben Carson, were drawing majority support from Republican voters.

... including she ? ? ? ! ! !

[Karl Henning]

Jeb Bush looked better than he did in the first debate, but likely didn't do
enough to bring his poll numbers back up or sooth his donors' growing fears.

In sooth!  Is that really an alternate spelling for soothe?

[Ken B]

Good God, Vanessa:

... including she ? ? ? ! ! !

Appalling.
"including s/he"

[North Star]

In sooth!  Is that really an alternate spelling for soothe?

Sooth is a noun and soothe a verb.

[Cato]

Sooth is a noun and soothe a verb.

And that's the sooth!   0:)

From USA Today online version, in a story about preserving brain power in old age:

"The committee did say the evidence "provides some justification for individual choices to eat less meat and more nuts and legumes, whole grains, and monounsaturated fats, such as olive oil, to perverse cognitive health."

Well, the word is spelled correctly!   

See:  http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2015/09/20/brain-diets-supplements/72248670/

[North Star]

From USA Today online version, in a story about preserving brain power in old age:
   

Well, the word is spelled correctly!   

See:  http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2015/09/20/brain-diets-supplements/72248670/

Shouldn't it actually be pervert, though? 

[Cato]

Shouldn't it actually be pervert, though? 

Heh-heh!  I suspect somebody had the letters really scrambled and saw the red line underneath it, hit "spell check" to unscramble it without checking carefully, saw the red line disappear, and hit "send." 

[North Star]

A case of suspicious quotation marks in the title of a Youtube video. Perhaps the photographs are of forgeries. How much would you pay for a "genuine painting" by "Claude Monet"? 

Gabriel FAURE': Pavane, Op. 50 - Paintings By "CLAUDE MONET"

[Karl Henning]

Not a full-on grumble . . . I had to see a headline phrased differently, to understand that Woman Burned as Baby Finally Reunites With Nurse Who Cared for Her was meant as Woman [ Burned as Baby ] Finally Reunites With Nurse Who Cared for Her rather than Woman Burned . . . as Baby Finally Reunites With Nurse Who Cared for Her.

[Karl Henning]

Probably a downstream effect of burned having served as slang in my high school . . . .

[Ken B]

Probably a downstream effect of burned having served as slang in my high school . . . .

If I saw a baby reunited withnurse I'd be burned too.