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Comment by booklover on February 27, 2013 at 4:15pm On my Comcast homepage there is an article about the pope. He said sometimes, during times of crisis (just paraphrasing), that it seemed gawd was taking a nap, or something to that effect. WOW. What a great and wonderful gawd.
Comment by Joan Denoo on February 27, 2013 at 2:30pm I have a question about "had". Kennedy said "I had a member of my family killed ... " and I hear it very often.
Robert Kennedy's Speech on MLK Assassination at 2:10 minutes
It is my pet peeve.
Steph, sk8eycat -- Ruth and a few others of us are discussing the general "decline in writing accuracy" over in Linguaphiles & Sesquipedalians.
One of the mistakes she found was in the news: "It is original from the Andean area of South Africa and widely grown in ... the south Mexico, especially Ecuador."
(That's a great glaring subtitle for "Eat, Ray, Love"! Doesn't anyone proofread magazine covers anymore?)
Comment by Idaho Spud on February 27, 2013 at 11:53am Watched one of my favorite movies yesterday, and noticed Johnny Depp used a line from a song that we were just talking about, "Good Morning Starshine"
Comment by Tony Carroll on February 27, 2013 at 6:03am I can't believe no one caught that grammar mistake sk8eycat.
No one proofreads anymore.
Then you're lucky, Sk8eycat, Dido prefers to lie purring loudly on my keyboard, while grabbing at my sweater and I'm not allowed to stop scratching his ears...
Comment by sk8eycat on February 27, 2013 at 12:47am Damn. It's difficult trying to type with a cat on my lap. The previous post is full of typos. Sorry.
Pumpkin will only sit with me when I'm at the keyboard...
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