Dr. Metablog

Dr. Metablog is the nom de blague of Vivian de St. Vrain, the pen name of a resident of the mountain west who writes about language, books, politics, or whatever else comes to mind. Under the name Otto Onions (Oh NIGH uns), Vivian de St. Vrain is the author of “The Big Book of False Etymologies” (Oxford, 1978) and, writing as Amber Feldhammer, is editor of the classic anthology of confessional poetry, “My Underwear” (Virago, 1997).

Tendentiousness

Here's verbatim quotation from the Camera, our hometown newspaper.  "Willcock [CU Buffs' trainer] said I bruised something on the side of my leg," [Alec] Burks said. "I've got real bad tendentious in my leg. He said he thought I pulled something."

Nothing worse for team solidarity than a tendentious leg in constant squabble with a doctrinaire ankle and an argumentative hip.  

Tendonitis is no doubt the word in question. Once again, the spellcheck fairy has waved the wand and produced nonsense.    

Does the Camera employ human beings as editors? It would seem that it does not. 

 

One response to “Tendentiousness”

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    Auto-reader in California

    Right/Write on Dr. M! Just read your post in my “Google Reader” news aggregator, which, sadly, doesn’t actually do the reading for me. Anyway, I suspect you are right. No human editors. They probably don’t even have human writers. Who needs ’em. After all, folks at a prestigious journalism school near Chicago have developed software that writes news stories on its own.
    http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/innovation/page.aspx?id=134675%20

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