An old friend (Hi Terri) sent me a link to a real estate agents web page, featuring a house in the street I used to live in back in Footscray. She knows perfectly well that even if I'm living on the other side of the world, where the seasons are backasswards, I still take a keen interest in all that happens in Melbourne and Footscray.
This paragraph (no link, the page'll be gone in a month) fairly leaped out of the web browser at me.
'60-62 EMPRESS AVENUE
The sheer size of this property will flaw you it keeps going & going & going. With two of everything your guaranteed to suffer from a case of de-ja-vu, this home offers buyers enormous potential with a small amount of elbow grease....'
Lemme see, two malapropisms and at least one punctuation error.
Yeah, I know, everyone uses word processors these days but this copywriter doesn't even have the homonym excuse to fall back upon. Floor and flaw do *not* sound the same.
Picky bastard aren't I!
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Floor and Flaw sounds pretty similar when I say them. But then I speak pure proper english, not a hybrid of two colonies!
Patronising bastard aren't I?
Iain.
(Ok, that came out sounding harsh, not silly. I need to practise my gentle rudery more... - Iain)
Heh - I thought it came out just fine :-)
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