Kate Beckinsale is in good graces, but the writer for Yahoo! Style doesn’t tell us with whom:
If you can decipher the rest of the sentence you might conclude that Ms. Beckinsale is actually in good company. The writer of this article isn’t exactly in good graces with readers, but she is in good company at Yahoo!. If not good company, then at least lots of company. Writers at the Internet giant use words incorrectly every day (or everyday, as they would write).
If there’s an editorial equivalent of a bridezilla, I’m probably it. The title would be warranted. But I wouldn’t be. Likewise, criticism of this word choice by a Yahoo! Style writer is warranted:
The bride might be justified, the title might be warranted, her actions might be warranted. But could the bride be warranted? Not so much.
Am I the only one who thinks that an editor who uses a noun as a verb is guilty of an inability to think of an appropriate word?
The genius editors at Yahoo! TV couldn’t come up with remembered, lauded, honored, extolled, admired, celebrated, or adored. So they made tribute, which is strictly a noun, a verb.
According to a certain Yahoo! Style writer, George Michael’s influence on fashion and style are not to be overlooked:
Apparently to the writer (and her editor), though, think it’s OK to overlook grammar — like matching a subject (say, influence) with a correct verb (let’s just say it ain’t are). In its stead, the writer should have used is. And in staid‘s stead, she should have used stead.
Oy. Does my head ache! And I blame it on this headline from Yahoo! Movies:
It led to my throbbing temples. What made the editor think that lead was the past tense of lead? When lead is pronounced led, it’s the stuff that’s in a pencil. The past tense of the verb lead (which is pronounced leed) is led. Which leads me to another source of my pain: That crazy hyphen before Detour. What led the editor to believe that was correct?
It’s off to the grammar slammer for the Yahoo! Celebrity writer responsible for this clumsy Clause:
Doesn’t it seem that it was just yesterday that we were facing Dec. 23, 2016? But time flies, doesn’t it? At least it does at Yahoo! Finance, where it was 2017:
All good things come to an end, and in this excerpt from Yahoo! Style that end starts with the fourth word:
Why couldn’t the writer match the verb to the subject? Probably for the same reason she thought “our dream” was a substitute for “our dreams.”
Well. This is generally a G-rated blog, but sometimes Yahoo! staffers make R-rated mistakes. This time the Yahoo! Style makes this claim:
Could be. The bigger the package, the bigger the pric. Not that I’m speaking from experience., but I hear many people saying that.
If fashion isn’t your passion, maybe you shouldn’t be writing for Yahoo! Style. Or maybe it just doesn’t matter that you don’t know the real name of designer Nicolas Ghesquière:
So, you don’t care to spell his name correctly. No biggy. You might want to focus on grammar and using the correct tense instead. Or not.
Terribly Write 