This was in the New York Daily News. Oh lord, give me strength.
Look closely at the caption. “Where Liam Neeson and her were married.” HER! HER! HER! For crying out loud, this is a newspaper, not the best one ever, but still a newspaper. So, why is some illiterate writing a caption that has the wrong pronoun as the subject of the clause? And then as if that weren’t enough, they were married 15-year earlier? How about 15 years earlier. Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy!
Where, for heaven’s sake, was the copyeditor? Oh, I know, newspapers don’t have them anymore because there’s spell checker. There are courses on grammar for journalists, so why don’t they take them?
Hey, colleges and universities out there, make grammar a required course for J majors or even for Mass Comm majors. Please. In the name of all that’s holy, please.
Thanks (or maybe not) to friend Laurie for this smack in the face. Oh, OK, it’s pretty funny too. Something the few remaining good copyeditors in the world can have a groan over.
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