Sunday, 30 March 2014

Double-take, # 60

Link: Rugby Observer, 13 March 2014, p. 3

Des Pond of Slough found this appalling piece of journalism, but was so disgusted by the tautologous statement in the first paragraph — ‘near fatal’ (which should be hyphenated) = ‘fighting for his life’ — that he didn’t read any further, thus missing out on the wonderfully bathetic, completely contradictory and accidentally humorous juxtaposition relating to memory across the first two sentences/paragraphs, plus the typographical error in the third. I admit that I stopped reading at this point…
near fatal + fighting for life; amnesia + never forget; Dunhcurch

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