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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on June 26, 2023, 03:24:05 pm ---Thanks! This issue has always been a bit grayish for me. Glad to know there's a specific answer and I've (at least usually) been doing it correctly.
But the New Yorker is never grayish! Any publication that can't write re-election without a diaeresis and spells out large numbers should certainly have a rigid rule about this, too!
Speaking of funny misuse, just today I came across an article (not in TNY) that used "eponymous" to mean publishing a book, not named after its author, after the author's death.
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Re-elect? Webster doesn't even use a hyphen.
Some time ago I can across an article written by somebody who thought Timbaland was a brand of boots instead a rapper.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on June 26, 2023, 09:21:00 pm ---Re-elect? Webster doesn't even use a hyphen.
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Oh, true!
--- Quote ---Some time ago I can across an article written by somebody who thought Timbaland was a brand of boots instead a rapper.
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Wait, do you mean "instead OF a rapper"? And was this an article in TNY? That's pretty bad.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on June 27, 2023, 10:24:44 pm ---Wait, do you mean "instead OF a rapper"? And was this an article in TNY? That's pretty bad.
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Yeah, that was my brain moving faster than I can type. It should have read "instead of a rapper."
It wasn't in TNY either. I don't remember for sure where I saw it. I think it was in a newspaper article.
Jeff Wrangler:
I got the July 3 issue in today's mail.
I cannot wait to read the article on the penis enlargement industry. :laugh:
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on June 29, 2023, 09:24:30 pm ---I got the July 3 issue in today's mail.
I cannot wait to read the article on the penis enlargement industry. :laugh:
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That one didn?t especially grab me yet but the plastics one is informative and horrifying. A duty article that reads pretty engagingly.
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