Sunday, 11 May 2014

Double-take, # 67

This supposed quotation is doing the rounds on Facebook. Headlining is an eyewatering syntactical swerve, with support from a shift in logic and some odd punctuation:


Out of interest, I ran the offending sentence through Word’s grammar-checking function (both the UK and US versions), together with a control.


Only the control error was flagged.
in a time, where if something was broke, you fixed it … not throw it away

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