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).
Sunday 19 June 2016
Multimangle, # 55
Another unsolicited email, with a rather naive subject line, from the inbox of Dr Faustus:
write you; no for not; 30mins; if you have interest in know what the job entails [omitted articles; comma splices]
No comments:
Post a Comment