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And then this Bear, Pooh Bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, F.O.P. (Friend of Piglet's), R.C. (Rabbit's Companion), P.D. (Pole Discoverer), E.C. and T.F. (Eeyore's Comforter and Tail-finder)--in fact, Pooh himself--said something so clever that Christopher Robin could only look at him with mouth open and eyes staring, wondering if this was really the Bear of Very Little Brain whom he had know and loved so long.

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

spellbound

1- yated neeman this week has a front page article about "Binyomin Netanyahu," I wonder if other Israelis of whose politics they approve less merit similar ashkenazation.

2- the store where I bought cold medicine this morning had a section for "Incontinents."

this post is filed under the category: pedantic about grammar

4 Comments:

At 2:09 PM, Blogger Abacaxi Mamao said...

"Incontinents" makes sense if the other aisles were labeled "People with Headaches," "Feverish People," "People with Small Papercuts," etc.

 
At 11:47 PM, Blogger Shmuli said...

Somehow I think if they referred to Shimon Peres as "Shimon Persky" it would not be taken as approval.

 
At 4:55 AM, Blogger miriam said...

shmuli,

1- i don't know what they tell you in lawyer-school, but please refrain from posting in the passive voice on this blog ;)

2- anyway, assuming you meant that i would be the one doing such "taking." i will respond:

a- i don't think that mistake is analogous, but
b- assuming there was an analogous switch, i might suspect that it was equally political.
c-of course, there is the problem of terrible copediting at most jewish newspapers, which casts doubt on the intentionality of any spellings. However, that said, I said what I did because I remember* an article (though I forget in which of the frum papers. about shemtiah, i think) that refered to "Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook" and "HoRav(insert name of charedi person - I forget the details)."
*fine, so by remember i mean forget most of the details, but you get the point...

 
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