From today’s riveting article: “UH film entries still win with proffesor (sic)”
I remain more convinced than ever that the Chronicle is like the vast wasteland where journalists who simply couldn’t cut it elsewhere end up, like T.S. Eliot’s straw men.
Also? It couldn’t hurt to invest in a program that offers some kind of spell check. Like some kind of professional word processing software; I’m sure that someone sells something like that. Or even just a dictionary. Do you remember those? They’re books that have words in them, words that are spelled correctly. You can get a whole set at Sam’s — dictionary AND thesaurus — for, like, five bucks. It’s quite the steal.
Just a thought.
Stuff like that drives me NUTS!
Even better is a free download of the Firefox browser, which comes with a built-in spell check feature.
Fo’ Free.
you are so mean to the Chronicle…where is the home town pride? LOL
Problem is not many journalist want to move to Texas, let alone Houston. 🙂 So the amount of talen you would get is already reduced by 95%.
My friend, I have hometown pride by the bayou-full. They don’t. And therein lies the problem. They don’t take enough pride in the jobs that they’re paid to do or in the city whose news they’re covering and it shows in what they produce.
Besides, if you can’t spell a simple word like “professor” correctly, maybe you need to pick a new line of work — one that doesn’t involve being paid to construct sentences for public viewing.
Also, I’m a bit of a bitch. But you knew that already. 😉
bitches are hot. 🙂
You may have missed the article by Sarah Viren where she writes about “gift-rapped” presents to teachers …