[Uncle Ike]

” ‘parends’, rather than ‘quotes’?? “

” Parens rather then quotes?
/ Silent, muttering curses at a world so gone to hell that even many professional writers can’t differentiate between a word for a choice and a word for a time period. “

Are we to conclude, then, that you are one of the referenced ‘professional writers’??

[Hardastarboard]

I'm definitely not a professional writer. Writing well is too much like real work, and my writing style would put you to sleep (think of reading legal documents).

What drives me crazy is that I see that transposition EVERYWHERE. I just saw it in a widely acclaimed history book that I was reading, by a well known history professor. I see it in pretty much every car and bike magazine I read, in history magazines, in instructions for how to put together a (name your favorite "some assembly required" item). I see it in MSM articles I find here that were written by "professionals".