Let this be a warning to anyone considering outsourcing writing to a non-English-speaking country or to any country where common idioms are not so common. You’ll wind up looking as foolish as the folks at yahoo.com who made this eye-popping word choice:


February 19, 2013 at 5:20 pm
But my thesaurus says that grabbing is almost exactly like catching….
“… some are definitely louder than others…”
Now THERE’s a mixed metaphor.
February 19, 2013 at 6:21 pm
I missed that! So, maybe the outfits were ear-splitting.