Mangling English: an occasional rant

Businesses that don't bother checking their websites, journalists who write gibberish and balderdash, professionals who can't take the extra time and effort to spell-check and proofread, newspapers that turn tragedy into farce through solecisms, plus the odd guide to solving common grammatical difficulties… Contributions and suggestions welcome. (… Also corrections if required, obviously!) Send to: manglingenglishATgmxDOTcom, stating your nom de mangle (if desired).

Friday 24 January 2014

Double-take, # 39

This is both badly-punctuated and ambiguous:

Link: Daily Star, ‘“You’re lucky I didn’t knock you out” […]’

Investigation reveals that the article discusses a policeman being filmed in the act of threatening a photographer, not a policeman taking footage of a threatening photographer.

Mangling English: an occasional rant

Friday 24 January 2014

Double-take, # 39

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