What THE F--k!!
And here I was pulling out my hair about DC's continuing misdemeanours, when a news report on rediff.com comes along to give it competition. http://www.rediff.com/sports/2008/oct/06anand.htm
Guess the editor must have asked the journo to give him a lot of articles, and so he got em all in one report..the only thing is that the articles, 'a', 'an', 'the' are all in the wrong places.
Just how does such English slip into print? The word, 'the' is used in places it has no business being, and then the writer gets cute with 'rallied back' while here I was thinking 'rallied' in this context meant 'fought back'. Seeing all this I feel like throwing in the towel, not 'throwing THE towel' like the report says:-)
Anyway, here is a small example of the bloopers for those not inclined to read the entire article: 'It was a memorable day for THE Indian badminton '...'V Diju and Jwala Gutta who wrote THE history first'..'Indian duo RALLIED BACK brilliantly'...'no mood to throw THE towel'... ( pssst...please dont attack me saying I'm elitist and English doesnt matter. It matters when u r reporting in that language, just like hindi mistakes in a Loksatta or Dainik Jagran are also mistakes).
Cheers folks, an on this bright note, i take THE leave:-))
Sunday, October 5, 2008
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