I’ve fucking had it.
I’ve quietly steamed while average Joes who type comments transpose simple words.
It always pisses me off to see someone type “He stands to loose a lot of money”, or some similar cock-up of the word “lose”.
I figure, OK, one extra “O”, it can’t be all that bad. This person isn’t earning a living by writing, so cut them some slack.
The next most common word that gets gooned up is “brakes”. As in “I slammed on my brakes to avoid hitting another car.” Most people who post on the internet believe that the proper word is “breaks”, which sounds exactly like the correct word but is in fact an evil alien plot to take over our minds. It’s like serving Baked Lay’s at your Super Bowl party: everyone will eat, but no one will be satisfied.
So my anger has been simmering below the surface, but this morning it boiled over.
News outlets, not amateurs, started screwing it up.
Granted, MSNBC didn’t have it in the headline but it looks like anything NOT written by the AP stringer got the wrong word.
So…the writers are idiots and don’t know the English language. But where are the editors? Does ANYONE know the difference between “brakes” and “breaks”?
And how do you GET a job like this if you are so loose (heh) with words?
For fuck’s sake, people, Spell check does NOT make your document perfect!
OK, I’m done.