Friday, July 24, 2009

King-sized errors

I found the following quote in an entertainment blog. This particular article is about the NBC show Kings.

And are resident David (Christopher Egan) is just a boy raised on a farm turned solider.

What does this even mean?

The most aggravating mistakes are the ones that make it impossible to discern what the author intended. The intent behind typos and the common affect/effect type errors is easy to recognize, but this one is more of a puzzle.

This quote follows the author's background on the show, describing it as a modern-day rendition of the story of David and Goliath, so I believe here, he's referring to "our resident David," but unless he was using some really bad voice-to-text software to dictate this article, there's just no excuse for this!

Source: http://unwind.host-it.ou.edu/?p=1474

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