Flirting with disaster

This could have been so much worse, but the writer for Yahoo! Shine merely flirted with a writing disaster. She makes what are now common errors (for her) by capitalizing and hyphenating stateside:

And she uses apostrophes in place of quotation marks. Worse is her implication that there are few TV series dedicated to flirting:

Puh-leeze. This writer shouldn’t try to use words of more than two syllables. She’s not adept at handling big words. It doesn’t require overanalysis to see the problem. And when referring to a blogger, she just can’t get the name right. (It’s Carly Spindel.) She should definitely skip the use of commas; it’s not employed nearly as frequently as a period.

This goof goes against everything our mothers taught us:

My mother taught me to take pride in everything I do.

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