I am not the perfect grammarian nor do I always spell correctly even after checking. I struggle with things Stephen Fry would digest in his sleep and frequently resort to a dictionary or question a common usage which has distorted the true meaning of a word or phrase. Blatant illiteracy, however, infuriates me and nowhere more so than on Flickr. Is it not worth taking the time and trouble to title, caption and tag correctly? How is it possible for example to reproduce (or in fact fail to reproduce) a word clearly visible in the photograph itself? If you can see 'Phoenix Buses', why caption 'Pheonix Buses' - more than once. This is not a typo, it is stupidity. Even more frustrating are examples of the phonetic but completely wrong reproduction of words in such a way as to completely alter their meaning. Recently I have seen:
'here here' - [hear hear]
'well-healed' - [well heeled]
'duel-braked' - [dual-braked]
'breaking' - frequently for [braking]
Whatever happened to English language education?
An Image For The Moment
An Image For The Moment - Kjosfossen - dedicated to Matt, a friend
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