Media mistakes

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prpr said:
and this one goes on about caustic acid
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Perhaps somebody will describe a flourishing poinsettia as "verdent".

I often wonder about people who consider themselves qualified to answer technical questions in the "Answers to Correspondents" page in the Mail:

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Yes, the energy vs. power battle is one I've fought before. You pay for energy, not for power. I won that one.
 
I thought that too, but I'm almost giving up being a pedant. The more I read replies from the public at large, I feel that life's too short ( even shorter if you believe the press).
 
gomezz said:
You would have thought wrong. Expanding the statement to

"I don't have the the energy or do I have the power"

makes no sense.
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I don't think so. Your expansion makes no sense from what was originally written, but conveniently changes things to 'prove' your point.
Nor is usually used with neither, so:
I have neither the energy nor the power
I don't have the energy or the power
would have been better.
Anyway, nobody picked up on "phase". Wasted.
 
prpr said:
Anyway, nobody picked up on "phase". Wasted.
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I noticed it but couldn't decide if it was you being clever (as the discussion was about electricity), you just getting it wrong, or an autocorrect issue.

As such I decided anything I said had only a 33% chance of being right ... :dunno:
 
MikeSh said:
As such I decided anything I said had only a 33% chance of being right ...
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I don't use autocorrect, so that raises it to 50%. I don't (generally!) get things wrong (unless deliberate), so the balance of probabilities is now... ?
So perhaps you're guilty as charged.
 
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