Posted on 07/13/2013 6:53:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Death to all misplaced apostrophes!!
Shudder is correct. Not shutter.
Correct. And that quote wasn’t even in the article.
(Should I have said "alot of shutters"?)
Courtesy of Hyperbole and a half
I’m still trying to figure out why my English teachers always advised against alliteration.
Willing to bet them scientist names' were *Boudreaux and Thibodaux*.
Sounds like the work of them boys :)
“What’s next for the primeval underwater forest that is owned more by the sea than it is by the U.S. or Mexico”
It is 10 miles off the coast of Alabama. Apparently the author in “Hispanicly”speakingnews did not look at a map. There is no way the area is “owned” by Mexico, though under international law standards there is no doubt it can be claimed to be in “U.S. territorial waters”.
The “Hispanicly”speakingnews author must be something of a “racist”.
Here’s the first report that the “Hispanicly”speakingnews reporter cut and pasteed from:
http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/03/ancient_underwater_forest_off.html
adding his own spin at the end that they might be “owned” by Mexico
Here’s the first reports that the “Hispanicly”speakingnews reporter cut and pasteed from:
http://blog.al.com/live/2012/09/ancient_forest_lies_10_miles_o.html
http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/03/ancient_underwater_forest_off.html
adding his own spin at the end that they might be “owned” by Mexico
...but not if you're a "graduate" of journalism "school".
They shutter their minds at any thought or mention of proper English, grammar, diction, reality, or common sense: they "shutter at the thought".
Never mind the squirrels; think about the size of the beavers!
Lib schools do this to our kids if we let them.
The money quote:
“... but if I didn’t tell you that it was over 50,000 years old, you wouldn’t know it,” said Kristine DeLong, the Louisiana State University researcher
Call me skeptical but Mobile Bay and southward is full of dead trees washed out of the delta.
I remember a story about some guys doing cores off the Florida coast and pulling up pine wood with the sap still in it, under a thick layer of mud.
Estimated age: 12,000 years.
I have some 7,000 year old wood from a cypress forest off the coast of West Florida (locally know as LA, lower Alabama).
Ten years ago, I appealingly packaged some with documentation and gave it to my family members for Christmas.
Now, I'd like to get some of this older wood.
The ‘journalist’ who penned this article will be the next White House press secretary no doubt! Incompetence at its worst!
Well, it’s clear you are NOT a j-school student because you got it right.
We used to laugh at apostrophe abuse when I was a kid. It was the sure mark of an illiterate. Now, I see well read adults making that error all the time.
And I never quite got around to thanking you properly.
I’ll forever remember that long burning fire and how that log sparkled and popped. It smelled like a primeval forest.
Can’t wait for this Christmas’ gift from blam.
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