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June 4, 2007
Distracting TV Error: "toddler's minds"
I don't know whether to be hysterical or terrified when I see serious grammatical mistakes on major news networks. Maybe I should send them a resume?
Just a few minutes ago I sat down with my breakfast and turned on The Today Show. The current story is about a man who is a "Baby Psychic" who, according to the show's text on the screen, "claims to read toddler's minds."
Now if I had a toddler and she had more than one mind I think I might not need a psychic to tell me what my toddler wants because she should be fully literate and maybe a rocket scientist. If she wasn't I'd probably be really disappointed.
:-/
So did they mean to write that this guy claims to read the minds of toddlers? (i.e. toddlers' minds) Or did they really mean to write that he was reading the one mind of one toddler? (i.e. toddler's mind). It's either a misplaced apostrophe or an extra s. I can't determine what it was supposed to be (although I have my guesses) but I can tell you that they left it up for the duration of the segment and that I was totally distracted.
I laugh anymore when I find serious errors like that. These are errors that change the meaning of the writing or prevent readers from understanding it at all.
Posted by KarissaKilgore at June 4, 2007 8:40 AM
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