Oh, lordie, if you’re the writer for Yahoo! Movies, you really need to cool it with the big words:
Eviscerate? Remnants of a mythological barrier? These big words — I do not think they mean what you think they mean.
Eviscerate means to disembowel or remove a vital part of. And further eviscerate probably has something to do with more disembowelment. Maybe you can further eviscerate a cow, since it has more than one stomach. But can you further eviscerate the remnants of a mythological barrier? A mythological barrier isn’t a real barrier, is it? It’s an imaginary barrier and therefore not much to disembowel.
I’m sooo confused. But not as confused as you.
March 29, 2012 at 7:21 am
That has got to be one of the worse sentences ever written. Do people actually get paid to write stuff like that?
March 30, 2012 at 3:13 pm
It’s bad. I think that Yahoo! just has very low standards (or maybe no standards) when it comes to the quality of its writers. I can’t imagine being so bad at your professional and still be able to hold a job.
March 30, 2012 at 3:00 pm
OMG! My high school English teacher would have thrown my paper back at me if I had ever written a paper containing a sentence like that.
March 30, 2012 at 3:14 pm
I think we must have gone to the same high school!