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Subway Corp. Grammatical Problems

Posted in Oddly... by Elliott Back on September 29th, 2006. [Del.icio.us]

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This literally reads, “Our cridit card is broken means {out of order} sorry thanks you…”  And what, might I ask you, does that mean!?

Hegel & Tragedy

Posted in Classics by Elliott Back on September 18th, 2006. [Del.icio.us]

If you’ve ever wondered what Hegelian Tragedy is, look no further:

“The tragedy in the realm of the ethical is to fall between the spell of two equal moral imperatives; thus the subject is constrained by the inextricable fate of failure no matter which he might choose.”

So I paraphrase this–discuss in comments, please.

Typo in the New York Times

Posted in Oddly..., Language by Elliott Back on September 4th, 2006. [Del.icio.us]

There’s a typo in one of today’s NYT Editorials, California’s Condom Bill:

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You’d think that a newpaper like the New York Times could devote staff to proofreading articles before publication, but I guess not.  Even my little would have caught this 1-letter-off mistake.