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Today I picked up one of those free town newspapers. The entire paper consists of press releases and very little news. These press releases are good for comedy relief.
From the press release for auditions for a play at a local theater:
Auditions are from 7 to 10 p.m., Sunday and Monday, Jan 13 and 14. There are no callbacks, but there will be a read-thru with the cast on the evening of Jan. 15.
All rolls are open.
The police blotter is prepared by the local police department. This account of a recent fire is grammatically correct, but the police officers at the scene apparently have a talent for stating the obvious.
Police and fire personnel responded to the CVS Pharmacy at 10:43 p.m. on a report of black smoke coming from a photo processing machine. Upon police arrival, officers observed a smoke condition and determined that the photo machine was on fire.
The police blotter is prepared by the local police department. This account of a recent fire is grammatically correct, but the police officers at the scene apparently have a talent for stating the obvious.
Police and fire personnel responded to the CVS Pharmacy at 10:43 p.m. on a report of black smoke coming from a photo processing machine. Upon police arrival, officers observed a smoke condition and determined that the photo machine was on fire.
I love reading police reports (I used to work at a PD and saw plenty of strangely worded reports)
The one above is one of the best - sounds so typical!
On a Facebook post this morning, from someone who is an educator, a piece of rhetoric ending with "Wake up my friends you being brain washed by the lame stream media". **shudder** I'm not even sure what's that is supposed to convey!
Either that or our DA has no idea what that word means.
Thank goodness I have you people to share my pain with. We're like a support group!
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Originally Posted by Retriever
I have to admit that I never could have imagined that someone would be able to screw-up the spelling of impact to that extent.
But, then again, there does seem to a problem with some people in terms of distinguishing between an, "m", sound and an, "n", sound, and this seems to transfer from their spoken language to their writing.
In sort of a reverse of the gaffe shown above, I have seen several instances of people writing that they want someone's, "imput", on a particular issue.
Imput?
I've seen "imput" before, and I think I may even have posted it on this thread...a couple of years ago. As someone mentioned, it's been going for a long time!
Today I picked up one of those free town newspapers. The entire paper consists of press releases and very little news. These press releases are good for comedy relief.
From the press release for auditions for a play at a local theater:
Auditions are from 7 to 10 p.m., Sunday and Monday, Jan 13 and 14. There are no callbacks, but there will be a read-thru with the cast on the evening of Jan. 15.
All rolls are open.
The police blotter is prepared by the local police department. This account of a recent fire is grammatically correct, but the police officers at the scene apparently have a talent for stating the obvious.
Police and fire personnel responded to the CVS Pharmacy at 10:43 p.m. on a report of black smoke coming from a photo processing machine. Upon police arrival, officers observed a smoke condition and determined that the photo machine was on fire.
Wow, you've got some sharp law enforcement in your town!
On a Facebook post this morning, from someone who is an educator, a piece of rhetoric ending with "Wake up my friends you being brain washed by the lame stream media". **shudder** I'm not even sure what's that is supposed to convey!
That person is trying to convey, albeit in a not very literate manner, that he/she is a follower of Fox (Faux) News.
There are people who believe that the, "facts", broadcast by Fox--and only by Fox--are the unvarnished truth, rather than a narrowly-focused attempt to discredit anything and everything done by anyone other than those on the far right. In other words, these people believe that every other news source in the US--plus foreign ones like Reuters, The BBC, Agence France, The CBC, Nikkei, etc--are all part of a vast, "left-wing conspiracy", to tell lies, and that only Fox has accurate information.
That expression, "lame stream media", is a favorite of a great intellectual commentator on Fox News, namely Sarah Palin.
Certainly nobody would want to try to, "refudiate", Ms. Palin!
Last edited by Retriever; 01-09-2013 at 07:26 AM..
But, then again, there does seem to a problem with some people in terms of distinguishing between an, "m", sound and an, "n", sound, and this seems to transfer from their spoken language to their writing.
While keeping in mind that for anything written on a QWERTY keyboard, m/n errors are a common typo, not necessarily a misspelling.
I have to admit that I never could have imagined that someone would be able to screw-up the spelling of impact to that extent.
But, then again, there does seem to a problem with some people in terms of distinguishing between an, "m", sound and an, "n", sound, and this seems to transfer from their spoken language to their writing.
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Actually, "inpacked" doesn't surprise me that much. In the speaker's mind, the object got "packed in" suddenly by the action, and "impact" does not derive from any common words (like "imprint"), so would need to be a previously-known word, as opposed to something intuitively derived. These are common mistakes by people who very rarely read and know the language only from hearing it spoken.
These are common mistakes by people who very rarely read and know the language only from hearing it spoken.
I think we could add that these folks frequently hear the language spoken in a less-than-educated manner.
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I love reading police reports (I used to work at a PD and saw plenty of strangely worded reports) 
