Yeah, right. All the readers of Yahoo! Shine attended this year’s Cannes Film Festival. And they probably also understand whatever the heck this means:
I don’t think I’ve ever, ever read a sentence quite like that. How does a writer produce a mess of a sentence like that and still get paid?
The senior political reporter for Yahoo! News‘ “The Ticket” should plead guilty to a grammatical felony for this goofy verb tense:
Creating a new past tense for a verb seems to be a trend at Yahoo!. Or else it’s just the result of writers who are grammatically impaired. The past tense of plead is pleaded or pled, not plead.
But that’s not the worst crime in this article about John Edwards. It’s the allegation that the former senator faces a $250,000 charge per fine:
Looks like she’s having a little problem with the words of order.
It’s a sticky mess about peanut butter’s rising cost on Yahoo! Shine. The senior editor gets a little stuck on spelling. Apparently Yahoo! writers and editors don’t have access to a spell-checker, which would surely have caught this misspelling of Cleveland:
It seems that they also don’t know how to use Copy and Paste, because that would have prevented the misspelled Roy Roberson:
The word lead can be pronounced as leed or led, but its past tense is led — not lead:
Apparently the writer feels her readers (who are mostly women) need a little elementary-school arithmetic lesson, but the result is a little nutty.
Like every media outlet on the planet, Yahoo! News has produced a “Decade in Review” — in this case a series of articles written by Yahoo! editors. So the content was 10 years in the making. Couldn’t Yahoo! have spent a few minutes in the editing?
There’s nothing horrifyingly wrong with this article. But there’s just enough to distract the reader from the content and put the focus on its creator: What was the writer thinking?
If it refers to the southeastern region of the U.S., Southern should be capitalized.
Weave is a funny little word. Its past tense is either weaved or wove, depending on the meaning. In this case, the meaning is “I don’t know what the past tense of weave is”:
Finally, two slaps on the wrist for the writer — one for just thinking about using a cliché and one for getting it wrong:
The writer on Yahoo! Shine should have sweated a bit more over this teaser and used the correct tense:
Let’s just hope that the writer of this snippet from Yahoo! Shine made a simple typographical error:
I’d hate to think that a supposedly professional writer doesn’t know that the past tense of cheat is cheated.
Terribly Write 