STOP PRESS RELEASE
May 16th, 2007 Posted in Amusing EventsI often have to send out press releases that have been written by someone else, but with my name and contact details at the bottom. I had printed 30 copies of this particular press release and was just about to send them out to my contacts when I noticed the following error:
“with their forthcoming tour already sold out and a gold album already in the bag, this is set to be their year and their inviting you to follow them to infinity“.
I HATE this error. It really annoys me. How difficult is it to understand that the abbreviation of ‘they are’ is ‘they’re’. It’s not hard, the space disappears and the ‘a’ is replaced by an apostrophe. Simple.
Consequently, I just could not send out the press release, certainly not with my name at the bottom. There is no way I could have other sticklers for grammar tutting at the error and assuming it was my fault. No way.
But I felt guilty that I would be wasting so much paper and, since I did not know where the recycling bin was, the green people amongst you will be glad to hear that I brought those 30 pages all the way home so I could recycle them here.
