Life in General

OK, I'm no longer the grammar policeman I used to be. Partly because I'm quite fallible myself and leave myself exposed to corrections galore and partly because I'm inured. However, there are still some solecisms that get me. I've spoken elsewhere about the "your/you're" abuse and the "their/there/they're" mixups and misplaced apostrophes. Well, here is another, fortunately, not so frequent, irritant...

How often do you come across constructs like this that make you flinch? This is an example of starting to write a sentence and then not being willing to back up and rephrase it! From Slate.com

The body in charge of assigning and overseeing domain names said that Internet addresses will soon be able to be spelled in any of the world's scripts, not just the Latin alphabet.

So, internet addresses have the ability to spell? Or is it you and I who have the ability to spell internet addresses?

# posted by anandm @ 5:51 AM