What, you've never heard of day surgery?

Here's another one I saw a month or so back:

"It doesn't feel like [I got robbed]," Ben told Access Hollywood at the Critics' Choice Awards on Thursday night. "We got nominated for Best Picture and seven other nominations. I guess I would of liked to personally have two or like three, four or five for myself, but I'll take whatever we got... it's a pretty cool thing." http://news.yahoo.com/ben-affleck-weighs-oscar-snub-151654805.html


​"would of"?!?  Professional journalists really write this crap?  And editors don't catch it???
 

artie_fufkin wrote:

Max wrote:

Here's another one I saw a month or so back:

"It doesn't feel like [I got robbed]," Ben told Access Hollywood at the Critics' Choice Awards on Thursday night. "We got nominated for Best Picture and seven other nominations. I guess I would of liked to personally have two or like three, four or five for myself, but I'll take whatever we got... it's a pretty cool thing." http://news.yahoo.com/ben-affleck-weighs-oscar-snub-151654805.html


​"would of"?!?  Professional journalists really write this crap?  And editors don't catch it???
 

If you owned a copy of "Nightmares" by the J. Geils Band, you would have seen "Must Of Got Lost" on the song list. By the time they got to "Blow Your Face Out," the title had been changed to "Musta Got Lost," but there wasn't one person at Atlantic records who looked at the original version and said "Hey ...."

Funny, in a Spinal Tappy way.  But I can easily see the record company remaining silent; given the way musicians flaunt their stupidity like a gold-capped incisor, the money-folk at Atlantic probably saw it as self-branding.

Max wrote:

"The Vatican band and Swiss Guard marched into St. Peter's Square ahead of the new leader who they have been sworn to protect for centuries."

http://gma.yahoo.com/white-smoke-over-sistine-chapel-means-new-pope-elected-180953008.html

 

On the plus side, he'll be easier to protect after he dies.

JV wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

Max wrote:

"The Vatican band and Swiss Guard marched into St. Peter's Square ahead of the new leader who they have been sworn to protect for centuries."

http://gma.yahoo.com/white-smoke-over-sistine-chapel-means-new-pope-elected-180953008.html

 

On the plus side, he'll be easier to protect after he dies.

Indeed. Remember the olden days when using "who" instead of "whom" was as bad as it got?

 

That's pretty easy. "Whom" usually precedes a preposition. "Affect" and "effect" still trips me up. And in an overall sense, spellcheck has made me too lazy for my own good.
But the one that's driving me crazy lately is "heighth," as in "Overall, the Blue Devils have good heighth, especially at the center position." You can have length, and you can have width, but you can't have "heighth."

What is a "possible suspect"?

Is that like and "almost maybe"?

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/04/17/cnn-boston-marathon-bombings-suspect-identified-in-surveillance-video/

"In Washington earlier today, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano testified before a congressional committee that some of the video collected from the bomb scenes near the marathon finish line had raised questions. She said there were “individuals” the FBI would like to speak to. “I wouldn’t characterize them as ‘suspects’ under the technical term."

"At today’s news conference, DesLauriers of the FBI said that “within the last day or so” the FBI had initially “developed a single person of interest”"



And because "suspect" sounds too incrimanatory, they create a new category "person of interest".  That's like calling a mentally challenged kid an "exceptional child".  If it were up to me, we would reserve "person of interest" for Halle Berry and the like, and stick with "suspect" when referring to a person who might have committed a crime.  



 

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