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Sunday, September 4, 2011

The Trentonian Boo-Boo

When I first logged on the Trentonian website, I noticed the word, "whits," had been used when the correct form was, "wits." I see that has been corrected. I suspect the copy was run through spell-check; I doubt a real breathing human does the proof reading. That's the curse of our reliance on gadgets. Here's a funny. Last spring a neighbor and I were outside yapping, when a delivery van stopped. The driver was trying to find Centre Street; his GPS kept coming up with no such place. He was stunned when we told him Centre Street was one block east. The problem was he entered Center Street which does NOT exist in Trenton. A good old-fashioned road map would have solved that problem.

1 comment:

Mister Clean said...

I'm surprised that this surprises you. It's been decades since The Trentonian has employed a hominid with an IQ exceeding room temperature.

But they think it's OK, you see; as long as you get the MEANING of what they print, well then, grammar and spelling are for elitists!

The same organization that touts "Newspapers in Education" is emblematic of the preciptous decline of all things intellectual within our society.

This, the same newspaper that dares to invoke "Pulitzer Prize" on every front page, yet gives bylines to barely literate high-school students, continues to keep L.A. Parker in golf and silly hats, and would crowdsource the entire paper to the likes of Robert Chilson if given the chance. Yes. And that's the newspaper that hasn't yet ABANDONED Trenton. Yikes.

Enough to give a man a headache, I tell you.