Pedantic rant, again.

[drcuriosity]

This Stuff.co.nz article (originally from this Sydney Morning Herald article) disturbs me somewhat. Certainly, the subject of the article is a little close to home, given the number of people I know who are roleplayers, have hackerish tendencies, have an interest in or penchant for urban exploration, enjoy collecting "weapons and suspicious items", go by aliases/online nicknames in everyday life, like bands like The Cure, and so on and so forth, and the majority of the population really needs yet another thing to knee-jerk over right now, but...

The thing that really gets me is the utter disregard for English. In the Stuff caption, there is the following monstrous abuse: parafanalia. UGH.

Elsewhere, they talk about a computer nut who "lives to programme", though the SMH article thankfully has "lives to program" instead. Having consulted with one who knows about this sort of thing to confirm it, "programme" isn't ever a verb, unless you're French. But then, I think the SMH website may have actually been subject to editorial review, whereas stuff.co.nz will pretty much publish anything they're given without bothering to look at it, from what I can tell. Either that, or they'll only change it to make it more painful.

Illiteracy (or at least ill literacy) is alive and well in New Zealand, and it's working for Fairfax New Zealand Ltd.

(Oh, and I have wisdom teeth being painy, causing grumpiness and sleep deprivation, but my parents have kindly offered to pay for high-quality dentistry. Yay!)

Comments

[wootduosmaster.livejournal.com]

I want his t-shirt :D

I think the government-law people overracted a bit, really :/