I happened to follow a link to Microsoft’s nearly useless MSN Groups site the other day and was horrified to see that the specter of a slogan that I believed had long since died an obscure death was still with us, at least in the “page title” information that’s displayed at the top of your […]
Archive for July 2007
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Thu 5 Jul 2007
More Stupid Every Day
Posted by The Word Nazi under Usage, Advertising, Grammar
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Mon 2 Jul 2007
The Incredible Shrinking Copy Editor
Posted by The Word Nazi under Nostalgia, General
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Once upon a time, there was an underappreciated yet vital person slaving away at your local newspaper. (We’ll save the “once upon a time, you had a local newspaper” lament for another time.) This person was the heart and soul of the newsroom, the bringer of sanity and restraint, the one who knew the difference […]