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@two dogs - A hero for these dark times!

Irrev-Black wrote: ↑Sat Jun 08, 2024 6:10 pm @two dogs - A hero for these dark times!

I'm currently reading Eats, Shoots & Leaves, and I'm sure that the author would approve of his work!

For those times when old-fashioned detention is not enough - try new Detainment!

For the amusement of @two dogs

The SMH/Age Quiz made a boo-boo.

Beneath the Planet of the Apes?

teh graun is not so coherent either, but it's important to keep things in prospective.

A sentence fragment can add drama and emphasis, but if it falls flat then it's confusing. It can also make the writer come across as a bit of a wanker.

Never forget it. (Found on Mastodon).

Sometimes the smallest mistakes are the most annoying, because newspapers should be better than this. From the SMH.

The hilarious moment happened after the stranded swimming cap caused a delay in-between the preliminary heats in the 100m women’s breaststroke.

"Between" is a preposition and should be used here. "in-between" is the adjectival form.

And a headline from the Guardian

Albanese’s new lineup signposts Labor’s areas of greatest weakness and effectively concede he made mistakes

The subject is the sentence is "lineup", if the lineup "signposts", then it also "concedes".

Analysing these errors eases the annoyance.