2865.
Lately the death of capable writing in this society of ours has been revealing some odd symptoms, to be sure, and I can't call this the 'death of print' since it's online and digital, but I'm betting it is related.
The AP Stylebook must have lately been condensed down to pamphlet size, much in the way the Eleventh Edition of the Newspeak Dictionary was being created. It's an awkwardwitticism explanation, but the best I can come up with for this stuff …
KGW is my news-online source of choice, mostly because I'm extremely impressed with the throroughgoing and professional mein they got there. As do most news sites, they populate the feed with AP stories. But I'm starting to wonder how much proofreading goes on over there.
Since I found this hilarious error, the story has been corrected; it's this one, which reports a wonderful, wonderful, thing; both UO and OSU unbeaten and in the top 10 nationally, which apparently, OSU CAN HAZ:
OSU UNBEATED, CAN HAZ BOWL GAYM NAOW? KTHNXBAI.
But the real boggler for me is this one, about that nut, Felix Baumgartner:
Lately the death of capable writing in this society of ours has been revealing some odd symptoms, to be sure, and I can't call this the 'death of print' since it's online and digital, but I'm betting it is related.
The AP Stylebook must have lately been condensed down to pamphlet size, much in the way the Eleventh Edition of the Newspeak Dictionary was being created. It's an awkward
KGW is my news-online source of choice, mostly because I'm extremely impressed with the throroughgoing and professional mein they got there. As do most news sites, they populate the feed with AP stories. But I'm starting to wonder how much proofreading goes on over there.
Since I found this hilarious error, the story has been corrected; it's this one, which reports a wonderful, wonderful, thing; both UO and OSU unbeaten and in the top 10 nationally, which apparently, OSU CAN HAZ:
OSU UNBEATED, CAN HAZ BOWL GAYM NAOW? KTHNXBAI.
But the real boggler for me is this one, about that nut, Felix Baumgartner:
It's still there at the time of this writing. And it does appear to say that Baumgartner is going to descend to 22 miles to make his legendary jump. Which would be somewhere in the upper reaches of Earth's mantle.
He claims that this will be his last jump. I can see why. After this, his true identity will be revealed.
Satan. I mean, 22 miles down? Who else?
And, so … in a post-copy-editor, post-spellchecker world … it goes.
Updated, 0741 10/09/12: The 120,000 foot descent has been re-termed an ascent.
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