Mea culpa. It’s all my fault. I admit it. I’ll wear it.
When I reported earlier today that there was a problem in a blog post on Yahoo! Shine, I neglected to enumerate everything wrong with the post. In my defense, I really thought that anyone with half a brain could see it. But I was wrong.
Only one of the two errors has been corrected:
My mistake? Overestimating the ability of the Shine writer.
The writer of this snippet from Yahoo! omg! took the bait and came up with the wrong word:
The word bated means “reduced or lessened.”
It’s just one more embarrassing mistake on Yahoo! Shine:
I thought I’d seen every abuse of the language until I stumbled upon this from Yahoo! Shine:
I think the writer is stumbling along the wrong path in her career. Writing just doesn’t seem to be her forte.
Your assignment is to complete the following sentence, by either changing a word or adding a word:
For the correct answer, check Yahoo! Shine later today.
Ugh! I thought adults knew how to spell gigolo. Either I’m wrong or the writer of this excerpt on Yahoo! Shine has not yet reached adulthood:
I’m thinking that’s a true misspelling, while this is just a typo (I hope):
Everyone knows that Michael Jackson had three children, and not the two kids named here on Yahoo! Shine:
Yeah, the writer of that excerpt listed three names. But, Blanket is Prince Michael II. The third child is Prince Michael. What surprised me was not just that mistake, but the incorrect verb surprise and the unintelligible sentence here:
What doesn’t surprise me? That this would appear on Yahoo! Shine, written by a member of its staff.
Mr. Gosselin’s missteps are as public as those made by the writer of this paragraph on Yahoo! Shine:
His companion in (note the single in) St. Tropez, France, (note the comma after France) was a 22-year-old, not a 23-year-old as reported by the Shine blogger.
Learn from your mistakes; better still, learn from the mistakes of others. This writer on Yahoo! Shine has problems with the word they when it starts a sentence:
And she has a bigger problem with commonly confused pronouns, like their and they’re:
She also has difficulty with your and you’re, frequently using one when the other is called for. The lesson for us all: Once you identify the words you confuse, misspell, or misuse, pay special attention to them in the future. And learn from your mistakes.
The Yahoo! front page makes a brain-dead omission:
Misspelling a simple word like that is really a no-no, especially on a Web page viewed by a gazillion people every day.
