Author Topic: I hate journalistic writing (Read 100298 times)

Brinestone · « **Reply #625 on:** November 21, 2013, 04:57:03 PM »

That is a great play on the word.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #626 on:** November 21, 2013, 09:45:20 PM »

You know, it really is.

BlackBlade · « **Reply #627 on:** November 23, 2013, 09:17:24 AM »

That was awesome.

pooka · « **Reply #628 on:** December 22, 2013, 07:47:34 PM »

"Obama hopes for trouble - free hawaii vacation"

It is an en dash, but just imagine if you got that one wrong.

Jonathon · « **Reply #629 on:** December 23, 2013, 09:13:10 AM »

It should just be a hyphen, not an en dash.

pooka · « **Reply #630 on:** December 23, 2013, 12:18:03 PM »

Oh. My keyboard just has one button that serves as either.

Jonathon · « **Reply #631 on:** December 23, 2013, 12:47:27 PM »

Yeah, keyboards don't have keys for dashes. You have to use some unwieldy combination like Alt+0150 to get an en dash on a Windows machine.

Jonathon · « **Reply #632 on:** January 27, 2014, 11:57:50 AM »

"Onewheel Is One Wheel Away From Being a Hoverboard"

No, it's not. As one commenter put it, it's one wheel away from being a board on the ground.

Nighthawk · « **Reply #633 on:** January 27, 2014, 05:39:04 PM »

Quote from: Jonathon on December 23, 2013, 12:47:27 PM

Yeah, keyboards don't have keys for dashes. You have to use some unwieldy combination like Alt+0150 to get an en dash on a Windows machine.

I hate that Word changes my hyphens to dashes automatically. I keep forgetting to hunt that feature down and kill it with fire.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #634 on:** January 27, 2014, 09:24:26 PM »

I never care.

rivka · « **Reply #635 on:** January 27, 2014, 10:46:11 PM »

I greatly appreciate that feature and use it deliberately often.

dkw · « **Reply #636 on:** March 01, 2014, 12:51:48 PM »

Quote

Stahre has an answer to Jackman's question: The state examined the mothers' medical records, which revealed, among other things, the women's home addresses.

By the address, epidemiologists can learn a mother's water source, whether she lives near an agricultural area and whether she took folic acid early in pregnancy, which helps prevent neural tube defects.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #637 on:** March 01, 2014, 06:39:19 PM »

No one in my old neighborhood ever took folic acid early in pregnancy. It just wasn't the thing to do. Over on the north side of town, however, everyone took the stuff, all the time.

dkw · « **Reply #638 on:** March 08, 2014, 08:05:00 AM »

Quote from: http://m.wesh.com/news/mbi-shuts-down-orlando-spa-that-sits-between-two-churches-accused-of-selling-sex/24864570

MBI shuts down Orlando spa that sits between two churches accused of selling sex

Part of me thinks this kind of thing has to be on purpose because someone thinks it's funny.

Jonathon · « **Reply #639 on:** March 08, 2014, 08:51:20 AM »

Oh dear.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #640 on:** March 08, 2014, 06:38:22 PM »

Since they can't sell indulgences any more, they needed to find something they could sell to raise funds.

Nighthawk · « **Reply #641 on:** March 31, 2014, 07:32:59 AM »

Dear Digg: No. Not even close.

Annie Subjunctive · « **Reply #642 on:** April 05, 2014, 03:03:56 PM »

Looks like it's a bit taller than the Eiffel Tower. Which is even scarier. They should have said that.

Jonathon · « **Reply #643 on:** April 05, 2014, 03:46:37 PM »

A bit taller? It's almost 70 percent taller.

Jonathon · « **Reply #644 on:** April 16, 2014, 09:24:54 AM »

From Daily Kos:

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So a neighbor outraged a taker dare get a bit of rest in her neghborhood called the police in order to have them remove the unsightly vagrant from her neghborhood. [spelling sic]

And here's a blog post explaining what it means.

rivka · « **Reply #645 on:** April 17, 2014, 12:02:16 AM »

Brinestone · « **Reply #646 on:** April 17, 2014, 07:59:57 AM »

It took me about five reads, but I got there, I think. I haven't followed the link yet, but it's:

So a neighbor ([who was] outraged [that] a taker [would] dare [to] get a bit of rest in her neighborhood) called the police . . .

Right?

Brinestone · « **Reply #647 on:** April 17, 2014, 08:02:33 AM »

Okay, read the link, and yeah, I got it right. But the first sentence is weird too. I didn't understand at first that their referred to a church. Why not its?

Jonathon · « **Reply #648 on:** April 17, 2014, 08:13:57 AM »

It's not uncommon to refer to companies and organizations with they, but in this case it doesn't seem to work well. I think it's because they're talking about the church as a building, not really as an organization.

dkw · « **Reply #649 on:** April 17, 2014, 10:22:41 AM »

I had no trouble understanding that sentence on the first read. I'm not sure what that says about me. Probably nothing good.