Friday, May 09, 2008

Defacing books...

by "pouring" over them - do you know just how many people DO that? (Also at the same time, defacing the English language - two offences, one usage... how very clever!) I also wonder what exactly it is they pour... water? syrup? alcohol? Well, whatever it is, I wish they would stop it.

You PORE over books, not POUR - literally or otherwise.

Jeez...




(What? I can rant, cant I? Stop shaking your head there!)

4 comments:

meerkat said...

if they are poring over it, they are not defacing it. if they are pouring over it, it means that they are not pouring on it. so it is not being defaced. if on the other hand they pour on the book , then you have a case.

either way you are just being a grumpeister ;-)

meera

Anonymous said...

LOL! Same with 'sore' vs. 'sour' ?

Ravi

LAK said...

Oooh, same rant---even the venerable old Times of India routinely makes this mistake---or, to be fair to them, the flighty Delhi Times supplement does.

Radha said...

I was reading a book last night that misused "flair" in place of "flare". I almost threw it across the room, but then I would have no way to retrieve it until morning (and disconnection from the cycler. Besides, I wanted to finish it, because apart from language flubs like the above, it was otherwise well-written.

Also sundry other places where people write stuff like "he had a flare for poetry" - and I have been known to shout at my computer monitor: "He has a f***ing FLAIR for poetry, you moron. He's not a bloody rocket firework lighting up the ground below!"