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14 points by raffi 252 days ago | link | parent

This paragraph is from a NY Times article. Can you find the error in it?

Still Mr. Franken said the whole experience had been disconcerting. “It’s a weird thing: people are always asking me and Franni, ‘Are you okay?’ ” he said, referring to his wife. “As sort of life crises go, this is low on the totem poll. But it is weird, it’s a strange thing.”

Neither can the spell checker in your browser. Why? Because most spell checkers do not look at context. After the Deadline does.

Visit http://www.polishmywriting.com/nyt.html to see the answer.

Besides misused word detection (and contextual spell checking), After the Deadline checks grammar and style as well.



7 points by pclark 252 days ago | link

awesome example.

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2 points by frossie 252 days ago | link

Besides the spelling mistake, is "As sort of life crises go" a valid expression? Should that read "As far as life crises go"?

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1 point by norova 252 days ago | link

I was thinking the same thing. In fact, it distracted me so much that I missed the "poll" mistake. :P

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1 point by TheSOB88 252 days ago | link

You're not done yet - it needs a comma after "still".

My sentence needs the period moved to the left a bit.

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1 point by jpd 252 days ago | link

My sentence needs the period moved to the left a bit.

Not if you're English.

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