# Is this writer's English vocabulary really this bad or am I being baited? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 9, 2004, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-writers-english-vocabulary-really-this-bad-or-am-i-being-baited/228323 "2004-02-09T21:08:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2004, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-writers-english-vocabulary-really-this-bad-or-am-i-being-baited/228323/1 "2004-02-09T21:08:15Z")
In this little [fluff piece](http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/02/07/BAG5U4R7EE1.DTL) about a boy who holds the record for affixing eating utensils to his face, SF Chronicle writer Steve Rubenstein dropped this beauty: > [@](#): > > Barbee keeps the record-setting spoons in a special drawer, to prevent their being co-mingled with spoons used for cornflake consumption and other pedantic chores. I’m quite sure he meant _pedestr_– err… Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2004, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-writers-english-vocabulary-really-this-bad-or-am-i-being-baited/228323/2 "2004-02-09T21:23:39Z")
What the…? I _had_ intended to post this in MPSIMS, it being so municipal and all. I was _sure_ I switched forums. :o ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2004, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-writers-english-vocabulary-really-this-bad-or-am-i-being-baited/228323/3 "2004-02-10T03:04:24Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > What the…? I _had_ intended to post this in MPSIMS, it being so municipal and all. I was _sure_ I switched forums. :o Don’t get all in a blather about it, nobody’s perforated.