You write the top, I’ll write the bottom

I swear there are at least two people writing for the Yahoo! front page: One person writes the top part of a module, and someone else writes the bottom. And they don’t talk to each other. Heck, they probably don’t even work out of the same office. They might even be on different continents. How else would you explain the apostrophe in one word and not in the same word in the same context?

It seems they can’t even agree on the number of big rigs that demolished a yard. Was it one big rig or multiple big rigs?

Maybe Yahoo! should invest in one of those newfangled thingies so that the writers can communicate with each other.

Eat clean? No thanks

Yahoo! Shine asks “Eat clean?” But, what does it really mean to “eat clean”?

It means that the writer didn’t know where to put the question mark. In the U.S., the comma and period go before the closing quotation mark. A question mark or exclamation mark go before the closing quotation mark only if they apply to the words within the quotation marks.

Wouldn’t you know that?

With the number and severity of the errors on yahoo.com, I would occasionally speculate that the writing was outsourced to Mumbai. After reading this, I no longer believe the Yahoo! front page is written in India:

If you were a writer in Mumbai or Bangalore, wouldn’t you know how to spell Taj Mahal?

Allegedly he’s guilty

In the trial of Abu Hamza, the jury allegedly found the defendant allegedly guilt of alleged crimes. Or something like that. That’s allegedly from the Yahoo! front page:

I think that once the accused has been found guilty, he is no longer an alleged criminal.