Glass Houses
The other day I happened across an article on the WTSP Channel 10 (Tampa, FL) website. It was a sad story of “Two students hospitalized after smoking popular herbs.” ‘Herbs’ in this context means incense. Sad story, but the lads seem to be on the mend. Hopefully, they will one day look back to the comments following the article and have a good laugh.
First, the innocuous:
And then the hilarious:
Really? “A thing for English etc”? Perhaps some lessons in the use of ellipses, “etc.,” appropriate capitalization, commas and other basic punctuation are in order? Prescriptivists come off as stuck up when they practice what they preach. They come of as silly when they do not.