Just curious: What’s your favorite past time? I’m partial to “the good old days” myself. You know, when ads and such were proofread before going to print.
Have no fear of perfection — you’ll never reach it.
~ Salvador Dali
Oh, for those days of yore
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at 11:15 am (Hack for Hire)
Tags: misspelling, proofreading, typos
Writing by Ear 
mel said,
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at 7:39 pm
hmmm. well. one of my favorite pastimes is thinking about past times.
don’t worry, C.–in a few more years, the literate public (and I use the term loosely) won’t even catch those typos, because they’ll have been reared on the erroneous teats of Internet and Texting.
Laura said,
Sunday, May 16, 2010 at 10:27 am
Sigh. Is there no hope for the future of the language?
WHAT'S THE MEANING said,
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 at 3:12 pm
The sentence doesn’t even make sense. How are “the beach” and “the game” pastimes? Isn’t there a verb (or two) missing somewhere?
WritingbyEar said,
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 9:52 am
Oh, that’s ad-man license, WHAT’S. Yes, it should be something like: “Our favorite pastimes are going to the beach and watching the game…”