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I know I talk about language and complain (internally) - CNET Speakeasy Forums
About poor usage and misspelling on the Television, but I just saw a really egregious example of it on an adverisement for the Discovery Channel, probably the Canadian version, but there's no reason for a science channel not to know the difference between Silicone and Silicon.
The ad opens up with a photograph of the pyramids followed by a printed statement.
The one for the pyramids is "Silicone Valley 1 BC".
Does that mean that the female mummies in Egypt were artificially enhanced?
Or is the promotional department for the Discovery Channel run by dyslexics?
(And yes, I'm stretching conventional English by putting two question marks in the same sentence instead of making them two separate sentences.)
I started primary school in 1951, my wife started it in 1958, and I can spell, and know the difference between the usage of lie and lay, and she doesn't.
It's amazing that 7 years difference can make that much of a change in the education.
It's astonishing how trivial good clear English usage has become.
Rob
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After writing the above post, I went to my e-mail where a friend sends me daily e-mails from her desk at work.
Usually it's quotations, many of which are good.
Yesterdays was The Graph of the Day.
X axis was Perceived difficulty, Y axis is actual difficulty.
The vertical gradients run from Could do it in my Sleep, through Some Thought Involved, Not Too Bad, Fairly Challenging, You Have to be Really Smart, and Couldn't Begin to Comprehend.
The Horizontal Examples in ascending degrees of difficulty are Riding a Bike, Cooking a Meal, Rocket Science, Correct Spelling and Grammar, and Correct Use of Turn Signals.
Correct Spelling and Grammar is greater than You'd Have to be Really Smart, Correct Use of Turn Signals is Can't Begin to Comprehend.
Rob
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Looking at the latest edition of Playboy.
It is one of those unexpected humor moments.
I remember my wife referring to some of the young, half dressed female singers as "Pop Tarts" long before I saw the term in print.
Perhaps someone will pick up the "silicone valley" term and apply it to some California city in his/her writing and it will stick.
Get a chuckle, shake your head and enjoy life.
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