Headline on local weather report:
Weather Effecting Superbowl
Really?
When “effect” is used as a verb, it means “cause something to happen” so that headline-written-by-an-idiot means, “Weather Causing Superbowl”.
Of course, the idiot who wrote that meant “Weather Affecting Superbowl” but, because he* is a subliterate idiot, apparently working for and with other subliterate idiots, that headline made it onto a local weather report.
Insert fork, twirl in brain.
*Yes, I eschew the “he or she” or “s/he” or whatever current abortion of good English is in current vogue in favor of the long usage of “he” to mean a non-specific person. I have little time or energy (and no respect) for that politically correct crap.
I love photographing the warning signs made by subliterate morons… especially the ones that actually get used.
When people get paid to be idiots, it really offends me.
People getting paid to manufacture this crap are thieves twice over: taking pay for producing crap and stealing what little literacy they may possess from unwitting half-(or less)literates.
Sigh. I wish I could say I expect better, but I don’t.
The product of decades of public school has taken over areas previously deemed safe – signage. My example was from Fort Worth – http://nurseinbox.wordpress.com/2010/12/25/the-vehicle-is-a-poor-babysitter/?preview=true&preview_id=1085&preview_nonce=215f3851d1
Also, one of my pet peeves is the sign over the “fast lane” at the store – “10 items or less”. I have suggested to a few that they use correct English and post 10 items or fewer. One teller actually thought a moment and replied, ‘that doesn’t sound right.” Amazing that correct English, now, doesn’t sound right.
Oh! The “less”-“fewer” thing just chaps my gizzard! My Wonder Woman is sooooo tired of hearing my reaction whenever I hear/see “less” used when “fewer” is correct! (Soooo tired? How tired is that? “Now, Honey, just calm down… ” For her, that’s strong language. *heh*)
*sigh* Math and grammar: both teach logic and cause-effect rationality in different ways. Heck, just reading well-written prose does that! Sadly, Dan Brown’s crap is mistaken for “well-written prose” (by those few of his readers who even know what “prose” means) by contemporary Mass Man, so we have the phenomenon of simple, well-spoken or well-written English “not sounding right” to subliterate, self-made morons.
Insert fork behind eye; stir vigorously.