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A Snarky Challenge
Every now and then, The Snarky Editor just has to pause and check whether y’all have been paying atttention. So here goes — ten examples from The Snarky Editor’s reading in the last two weeks. (She’s uncertain whether that means there are even more egregious examples these days, or if she just spends too much time reading.) Answers next week.
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1. working for the Palmers (plural) or working for the Palmer’s ______ (missing word)?
2. a profundity? Not even sure what the author was aiming for, perhaps a profusion?
3. chi-chi . . . but I love the idea of she-she restaurants and especially during Pride month!
4. Perhaps Heather is trying to refer to novelist Ernest Hemingway? (Sarcasm fail!)
5. Awww, sweet, but I’m assuming the quilt squares have nature motifs?
6. Since Ingrid and her family are the subject, rather than object, in this sentence, “I or my family” is grammatically correct (and I’d flip that to “my family or I” to eliminate the awkwardness). That said, I am happy to believe that Ingrid actually speaks like this, and would say “me or my family.”
7. Hmmm, I’d capitalise the W of “We’ll marry and have kids” as that is a complete sentence with the longer sentence, but I’m more worried about the pain of an image pressing on one’s brain. Ouch!
8. Trying to imagine why people would scoop stew from one bowl into another . . . perhaps portion control? Or the OG bowls are expensive crockery and there is a fear they might not be returned?
9. Rein/ reign . . . Maybe the narrator intended to say that Andrew, not Oliver, wasn’t welcome in the library? LOL!
10. Tie/ Tide . . . maybe this was just a typo?
What a great start to a Monday morning - thank you!