Did Jennifer go to journalism school to write sentences this contorted or did it just come naturally to her? Can coal become molten or does it just burn?
A great explosive burning of coal set fire and made molten by lava bubbling from the Earth’s mantle , looking akin to Kuwait’s giant oil fires but lasting anywhere from centuries to millennia, could have been the cause of the world’s most-devastating mass extinction, new research suggests.”
Is it just me seeing this or have reporters generally lost the ability to compose sentences and spell correctly?
As for the theory, who cares? This announcement simply looks like another tenure seeking prof pimping for grants.
. After listening to years of talk radio at night I know for a fact that advertising announcers must have speech defects or at least odd quirks in pronunciation in order to be hired. Something analogous to that may work in the newspaper business, too.
I see it all the time, epecially on Foxnews.com. They let the spell checker replace words that don't fit and then there is no such thing as proof reading anymore to make sure the story makes sense. There are no longer the requisite answers to Who, What, When, Why, How in news stories.