why can't people just get things right?
I know the alligator is student-run, and therefore I shouldn't take issue with mistakes I find inside. But sometimes, I just can't help it. I've seen the common accept/except error, I've seen there/their/they're screwed up so many times... and I know (thanks mike :) ) that to be a reporter you don't really have to know how to spell or how to punctuate. That's the editor's job, right?
I pick up my copy of the Alligator this morning and look at the headline: "Wayne Brady to headline Gator Growl" and immediately I'm super excited. Anyone who knows me knows that I love wayne brady, and so I immediately start simultaneously making plans to get tickets and reading the story. Imagine my chagrin when, five paragraphs down, I see "... like for many performers, Gator Growl is like a right of passage - they all want to do it once." (my emphasis)
Rite of passage, dammit! Rite of passage!! How does the editor of the largest student-run paper in the nation miss that one? Wayne Brady does not have a right to pass through Gator Growl. Neither did Bill Engvall or... well, maybe Bill Cosby kinda did, but that's not the point. "Right of passage" isn't even in the dictionary (although m-w.com did helpfully suggest right-of-ways, rotifers, lighterages, redeposited, and rotisseries as spelling suggestions).
I thought we had a pretty large amount of international students at UF. How are we gonna expect them to speak the language correctly if the freakin' editor of the paper can't get a phrase right rite correct? Doesn't anyone read anymore?
In other news, I had an exceptional weekend. I didn't do anything spectacular, but for the first time in a long time I was a whole lot of happy, instead of a little bit of happy covering a whole lot of sad. And I read the new harry potter book. :)
I pick up my copy of the Alligator this morning and look at the headline: "Wayne Brady to headline Gator Growl" and immediately I'm super excited. Anyone who knows me knows that I love wayne brady, and so I immediately start simultaneously making plans to get tickets and reading the story. Imagine my chagrin when, five paragraphs down, I see "... like for many performers, Gator Growl is like a right of passage - they all want to do it once." (my emphasis)
Rite of passage, dammit! Rite of passage!! How does the editor of the largest student-run paper in the nation miss that one? Wayne Brady does not have a right to pass through Gator Growl. Neither did Bill Engvall or... well, maybe Bill Cosby kinda did, but that's not the point. "Right of passage" isn't even in the dictionary (although m-w.com did helpfully suggest right-of-ways, rotifers, lighterages, redeposited, and rotisseries as spelling suggestions).
I thought we had a pretty large amount of international students at UF. How are we gonna expect them to speak the language correctly if the freakin' editor of the paper can't get a phrase right rite correct? Doesn't anyone read anymore?
In other news, I had an exceptional weekend. I didn't do anything spectacular, but for the first time in a long time I was a whole lot of happy, instead of a little bit of happy covering a whole lot of sad. And I read the new harry potter book. :)