Thursday, April 10, 2008

A Dark Day for The New Yorker

Not only are their cartoons often grotesquely incomprehensible, now they’re apparently written and edited by illiterate cretins. Take a few seconds to read what that caption is saying.

“IT IS ONLY EMISSION IS WATER VAPOR.”

New Yorker editors - what does that mean, exactly? It means you really screwed the pooch on this one. The correct use of “it’s” and “its” is confusing for many people. I understand that. But is it really beyond our grasp as a civilization? Come on!

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