{"id":273,"date":"2005-06-17T09:57:17","date_gmt":"2005-06-17T09:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=273"},"modified":"2005-06-17T09:57:17","modified_gmt":"2005-06-17T09:57:17","slug":"crimes_against_grammar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2005\/06\/17\/crimes_against_grammar\/","title":{"rendered":"Crimes Against Grammar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I earn my daily bread as a professional copy editor, among other things. That means I nitpick for cash, and just in case you&#8217;re wondering, no, there isn&#8217;t much cash to be made from picking nits. My slogan could be that immortal exchange from the Robert Redford film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0105435\/\"><i>Sneakers<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Redford: &#8220;It&#8217;s a living.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Woman: &#8220;Not a very good one.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyway, doing this particular job has made me extremely sensitive to the general lack of correct grammatical usage that pervades our culture. I&#8217;m not talking about the way people speak, which is informal and colloquial by nature and thus not something I personally think is worth fretting over. I&#8217;m referring instead to the downright painful mistakes I constantly see on signs, menus, advertising, and the business documents I review &#8212; media that is professional in nature and should therefore adhere to the rules.<\/p>\n<p>For some examples of the sort of thing that drives me crazy, check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.banterist.com\/archivefiles\/000263.html\">humorous collection<\/a> of egregious errors that were observed along the boardwalk on Coney Island&#8230; which, as someone once pointed out, is not actually an island&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Incidentally, the frequent misuse of the possessive apostrophe-s to make nouns plural is my greatest editorial pet peeve. It makes me say, &#8220;Arg.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I earn my daily bread as a professional copy editor, among other things. That means I nitpick for cash, and just in case you&#8217;re wondering, no, there isn&#8217;t much cash to be made from picking nits. My slogan could be that immortal exchange from the Robert Redford film Sneakers: Redford: &#8220;It&#8217;s a living.&#8221; &nbsp; Woman: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-bloody-red-pen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}