It's your language. You use it every day. You should strive to master it. My late mother, a 27-year, graduate-level professor of English, embedded that in my brain once upon a time. I’m not nearly as smart as she was, but I’m sharp enough to recognize that the vast majority of native-born Americans can’t speak or write English worth a lick.
The author of this Yahoo! News article is either complicit in the perpetual dumbing-down of the U.S., or he's just dumb himself, and doesn't know the word sic would've been appropriate here:
I think you've had an influece on the writers at Yahoo's Shine. Someone discovered [sic] and has used it with hilarious results. You can see it here: http://terriblywrite.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/your-sense-of-humor-is-sic/
3 comments:
Nice!
I don't think the writer or Yahoo's readers would understand "sic." Makes me sic just to think about it.
I think you've had an influece on the writers at Yahoo's Shine. Someone discovered [sic] and has used it with hilarious results. You can see it here:
http://terriblywrite.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/your-sense-of-humor-is-sic/
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