January 2009
3 posts
Corporate illiteracy
The always pithy Ian Jindal has a post today where he expresses his amazement at illiterate copy in a recruitment ad;
http://www.innoparticularorder.com/illiterate-ad/
Ian has removed names to protect the innocent, but I’m not going to be so polite with my own recent example of shoddy, should-know-better grammatical standards. Here’s an email I received a few days ago from Waitrose,...
Beware the homophone.
Attended a meeting yesterday at the Guardian’s knockout new offices, ‘Kings Place’, in up-and-coming north King’s Cross: a flagship for regeneration, and a quite stunning piece of working architecture. The centre of the building is a soaring public atrium, with a cafe and tables, and this bringing the outside in seemed to me to have a significantly beneficial effect on the space,...
Tweet or twit?
Techie’s house catches fire, so naturally he tweets about it. Twitter world is alight (sorry) with excitement. http://twurl.nl/d20i7k
Initially I was in two minds as to whether there’s any significance in this story; it seemed like a case of “Wow! Something real actually happened!”.
On reflection, I’m going to put my natural scepticism outside with the frost and...