Friday, December 26, 2008

Resume Building

There are 3 writers in today's paper flashing their professional credentials:

1. A writer who writes, "I have got to get going." Perhaps no one has clarified for this writer that the correct expression of intent is "I must be going," which is the informal version of "I must leave." First, we don't say, "I have got," and secondly, we cannot "get" going because to get anything means that it has to be something that can be gotten in the first place.

2. A clinical psychologist who writes about there not being any "fun" in disfunction [sic], which proves that advanced degrees do not require advanced spelling of common jargon in one's field of alleged expertise.

3. A collumist [sic] who allegedly writes for major publications, but cannot spell his professional designation is suspect, at best, regarding his actual job experience. Perhaps the reason he has written for so many major publications is because he's not a good collumist [smile].

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