If I’m a grammar Nazi at all, I’m certainly a lukewarm one.
Odd little errors and dialectical idiosyncrasies don’t bother me much, if at
all (although misplaced apostrophes and ‘there’ for ‘they’re’ do tend to
rankle.) And I have no problem with writers breaking with convention
deliberately and for a reason. It’s often one of the things that make a good
writer, and poets do it all the time. What bothers me is sheer sloppiness on the part
of people who should know better.
There was a news report today about a yellow alert being
issued because of expected heavy rain in East
Anglia and Central England.
It was headed:
Summer is Officially
Over
Officially? That’s like saying ‘I literally died of fright.’
You’d think that people who are paid to write words for public consumption
would be a little more diligent, wouldn’t you?
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