What does get to me is when a common media misuse of a word apparently has gotten into my ear, such as when I typed "flaunt" when I meant "flout" yesterday. I used to notice that kind of thing in, especially, magazine journalism back in the 60s and 70s. I don't remember it as much in the newspapers, but, then, in my time most of the ink stained wretches who worked for those were reporters who came up in an apprenticeship, they had editors and they weren't as likely to be college-credentialed, mid-brows who wanted to impress each other by misusing words they didn't know the meaning of except vaguely. Back when the Boston Globe was a great family-owned newspaper and it hadn't been sold off by the idiot descendants to the New York Times and then a consortium of millionaires. It's a wreck of its former self and I seldom look at it anymore.
Catch me on something like that and you might get to me
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