Listen to them!
Unmasking the imps that toy with our speech and
our writing in the guerilla war on our language
The University of Auckland’s Institute for Innovation in Biotechnology welcomed the conference with professor Joerg Kistler saying it gave New Zealand access to cutting edge knowledge.
via ‘Genetic terrorism’ claims as big guns of GM set to meet – NZ Herald News.
Ironic that in a story titled ‘genetic terrorism’ we see two examples of linguistic ‘terrorism.’
Farewell comma, welcome ambiguity
Did the institute welcome a conference with professor Joerg Kistler, or did the professor comment on it?
Bring back the hyphen
Sadly, access to knowledge of cutting edges will not increase cutting-edge knowledge.
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