Friday 15 February 2008
Good tidings
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This little beauty appeared in the God-awful Scotsman newspaper recently:
Apart from the gorgeous spelling errors, I enjoyed the sentence beginning 'Clothes, shoes...' The way the list suddenly recommences, seemingly apropos of nothing, is excellent: it's like when a newsreader is told to keep ad-libbing because the tape of the next story isn't ready yet.
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Apart from the gorgeous spelling errors, I enjoyed the sentence beginning 'Clothes, shoes...' The way the list suddenly recommences, seemingly apropos of nothing, is excellent: it's like when a newsreader is told to keep ad-libbing because the tape of the next story isn't ready yet.It's good to be home, GrammarBlog.
Labels: boxes, scotch, scotsman, spelling errors
posted by Dan at 8:51 am
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3 Comments:
DVD's, CD's...
Although kudos for correctly using 'envious' and not the now ubiquitous 'jealous'.
I like the image of "tiding away clutter in the living room..." I picture a slow rising of the waters (of the Tyne?) up from the carpet to the couch-cushion level until slack-water. I see books, plates, and the television remote floating in for a moment before sliding out the front door on the ebb.
urmph! I left an accidental "in" between "floating" and "for." I beg your pardon.
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