Just read news.com.au and you will regularly see such clangers. Proofreaders are apparently no longer a thing.When ya reading some serious article and they use those two unforgivable words: "try and", instead of the correct "try to"...And then I have to justify to myself, "hey, they're not really that dumb, maybe they're just being casual - like someone starting a sentence with 'and'".
A similar-ish one was while watching ABC News and the DEI-hire reporter actually ended her sentence with "and that". I hadn't been watching TV for a long time and was almost crying with laughter.
The one that gets right up my left nostrel is the use of the 1950'd beatnik talk, "like".Just read news.com.au and you will regularly see such clangers. Proofreaders are apparently no longer a thing.
I myself am a regular linguistic transgressor, but my excuse is that I failed English and only fell in love with the language in later life.
However, it is supposed that having a degree in journalism would presuppose either a degree in English, or at least some units in the same.
Let's be honest, Australia is nailing it.
Positive thinking at its best!!!!
What gg 16 deg that's downright swimming weather.Bloody freezing this morning in Townsville. 16 C . My Ug Boots are at the far end of the bedroom. Life sucks.
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I must put that in my diary.Dang... slept in
World Hijab Day
February 1st marked the first annual World Hijab Day in recognition of millions of Muslim women who choose to wear the hijab and live a life of modesty
and celebrated with a beauty parade?
For those into oversize then perhaps the one on the right is for those who like.
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