Double-take, # 190

Another from Dr Faustus. The duplicated article seems to be a minor problem amidst the convoluted syntax and repetitive diction:

the the [+ repetitive/convoluted diction]

Double-take, # 108

Des Pond of Slough asks (rhetorically), ’Why the question mark?‘

Link: The Warwick Courier, ‘We Still Want Answers Say Warwick Townfolk’

The answer, of course, is that the writer doesn’t really understand the difference between direct and reported speech.

reported question – with question mark

Direct speech versus reported speech

Link (available to Facebook members only): Facebook, Jessica.Rockz

I hate it when people put reported speech in quotation marks as though it were direct speech. I wonder if any of the thousands who 'liked' or discussed the page actually noticed the grammatical idiocy…