Anomaly detected!
Note: This is an academic/techie post in disguise*.
It's very curious how a word's meaning can be somewhat undermined by its usage or, more specifically, a slight shift in how people choose to write it. In this case, if you hadn't already deduced it, the word is "intact", and I've noticed that Americans (in particular) seem to be terribly keen on breaking it into two parts for no readily apparent reason.
The latest example:
"August, the screenwriter of Big Fish, Corpse Bride, and the Charlie's Angels movies, among others, was hired about two years ago to write an adaptation of the Captain Marvel comic book, also known as Billy Batson and the Legend of Shazam, keeping much of its tradition in tact." - http://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog/2009/1/6/writer-john-august-says-shazam-is-dead.html
In...deed. Very odd. I wonder if it's some wayward AutoCorrect-based malarkey?
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Meanwhile, and not to be confused with Zack Snyder's legally-embattled Alan Moore adaptation, Shona Illingworth's The Watch Man film installation is on at the Wellcome Centre from next week:
http://www.wellcomecollection.org/exhibitionsandevents/exhibitions/The-Watch-Man/index.htm
*Under review elsewhere: http://sourceforge.net/projects/intact/
It's very curious how a word's meaning can be somewhat undermined by its usage or, more specifically, a slight shift in how people choose to write it. In this case, if you hadn't already deduced it, the word is "intact", and I've noticed that Americans (in particular) seem to be terribly keen on breaking it into two parts for no readily apparent reason.
The latest example:
"August, the screenwriter of Big Fish, Corpse Bride, and the Charlie's Angels movies, among others, was hired about two years ago to write an adaptation of the Captain Marvel comic book, also known as Billy Batson and the Legend of Shazam, keeping much of its tradition in tact." - http://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog/2009/1/6/writer-john-august-says-shazam-is-dead.html
In...deed. Very odd. I wonder if it's some wayward AutoCorrect-based malarkey?
___________________________
Meanwhile, and not to be confused with Zack Snyder's legally-embattled Alan Moore adaptation, Shona Illingworth's The Watch Man film installation is on at the Wellcome Centre from next week:
http://www.wellcomecollection.org/exhibitionsandevents/exhibitions/The-Watch-Man/index.htm
*Under review elsewhere: http://sourceforge.net/projects/intact/