Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Journalism: if you haven't got it, don't flaunt it
Today I accepted an invitation to join a Facebook group in defense of irregular verbs. That's not all I did; I also went to the library, went to the town treasury to pay my trash collection bill, finished reading a book by Haruki Murakami, did a load of laundry, wrote a couple of e-notes, and more. But, back to the defense of irregular verbs: how about "She had bade a tearful goodbye..." in the second paragraph of A nursing home death, and a shocking phone call "in the Los Angeles Times? Right. And had she went to what used to was a ... whatever? "if you haven't got it, don't flaunt it"
Identificateurs Technorati : journalism, grammar, LA Times, language, Facebook
Identificateurs Technorati : journalism, grammar, LA Times, language, Facebook
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# posted by Maurice Lanselle @ 11:31 PM 
