{"id":1547,"date":"2007-04-06T09:28:56","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T16:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2007\/04\/eptitudes\/"},"modified":"2007-04-06T09:28:56","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T16:28:56","slug":"eptitudes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2007\/04\/eptitudes.html","title":{"rendered":"Eptitudes"},"content":{"rendered":"

This image — received from a reader who writes, “I am surprised, too!” — has been making the rounds of the Internet for a long time as a theme<\/strong><\/font><\/a> with variations<\/strong><\/font><\/a> (and in many iterations<\/strong><\/font><\/a> from left<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, right<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, and elsewhere<\/strong><\/font><\/a>):
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\nAlthough we know what it means, the caption does not parse. It’s grammatically inept. But — I’m switching gears here — Sam Zell’s grammatically ept “I’ve never read online”<\/strong><\/font><\/a> also fails to parse and is truly scary, given his winning bid<\/strong><\/font><\/a> for the Tribune media company.<\/p>\n


\nSince I’m parsing, have you read the LA Times drama critic Charles McNulty lately? Here’s what he wrote the other day: “Redgrave honors this journey not by mimicking it but by processing it through her own sublimely empathic instrument.” Whoa! The Times would be doing its readers a service by processing empathetically inflated criticspeak<\/strong><\/font><\/a> like that through a flapdoodle strainer.
\nPostscript:<\/strong> April 7 — And now for a caption that parses all too well:
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<\/center>Burqa-clad students gathered on the roof of a religious school in Islamabad to watch other students burn CDs and DVDs they deemed offensive.<\/a><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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