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Its just not right

This capture is from the home page of the LA Times. True or false: It becomes harder to accept the veracity of what’s printed in the newspaper when its editors and writers can’t distinguish between a contraction and a possessive.

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4 Responses to “Its just not right”

  1. Kevin Says:

    How do they manage to get it correct in one sentence and blow it utterly in the next?

  2. Jackie Says:

    True. And yikes!

  3. Jim Markley Says:

    Don’t editors get caned in Singapore for this type of gaffe?

  4. Lee Wochner Says:

    Jim, this is yet another lesson we can take from Asia.

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