USAToday's Naive Grand Headline Mistake

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Minutes ago USAToday put on its grand headline (see the pic attached):
Acura ILX versions includes 1 hottie
Well, even elementary school pupils know "includes" should be "include":

http://www.picupload.us/images/545gramma_mistake_of_USAT.jpg

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@oristarA,

This is worth a whole thread? LOL

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@cicerone imposter,

cicerone imposter wrote:

This is worth a whole thread? LOL

Does it look soo simple to be worth mentioning?
It tells us that Linguistics is not alone. It involves the Science of Life and the Moral Law ect.
In Aeronautics and Space Science, such simple mistake sometimes kills.
YOU SHOULD NOT MAKE SUCH MISTAKE IN SUCH IMPORTANT POSITION. Because USAToday online faces more than one hundred million readers!
Comments are appreciated.

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@oristarA,

I've been retired from work since 1998. Mr. Green

Besides, I was a pencil pusher. Drunk

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Hate to burst your bubble Ori, but the headline looks fine to me.

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@Ceili,

It could just well have said "Acura includes one hottie." Sounds good to me!

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@oristarA,

Upon a re-read of the sentence, the problem is with the word versions, not includes.
How many versions of the ILX are there? The word I would have used was model. As cars aren't usually described as versions...

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Versions should have been models.

Some models are virgins, but I digress.

Note to Oristar: We don't take much notice of mis-prints unless they make us laugh like the notice in the Church bulletin which read:

On last Sunday's extra warm afternoon, Mr. Stanley Ferguson appeared before the Ladies Auxiliary and, after removing his jacket, layed the piano for about two hours.

Joe(well done, sir)Nation

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I don't know how many versions they've got, but if there is more than one, the word is include. Maybe one version has rounder wheels.

Now I'm wondering if the hottie is sold separately.

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@roger,

I've been wondering about the hottie myself. I might be interested..

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@Ceili,

Ceili wrote:

Hate to burst your bubble Ori, but the headline looks fine to me.

Ceili wrote:

Upon a re-read of the sentence, the problem is with the word versions, not includes.
How many versions of the ILX are there? The word I would have used was model. As cars aren't usually described as versions...

Me too, Ceili. Wink

Because USAToday supports me:

http://www.picupload.us/images/47915201149_snap.jpg

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@oristarA,

1 hottie, 2 notties = 1 merit, 2 flaws?

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@oristarA,

I guess. A hottie is usually a feminine type with a good attitude. A nottie is the writer's own creation.

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@roger,

A nottie is the one who looks for the hottie.

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@cicerone imposter,

So, there are two Acuras that are still looking? Maybe they need a few more cup holders.

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@roger,

I drive a 2006 Acura TL; my very last car. That's my hottie, but I'm no nottie.

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@roger,

roger wrote:

I don't know how many versions they've got, but if there is more than one, the word is include.
Maybe one version has rounder wheels.

I agree. If that is an ad,
then presumably the error is attributable to the ad agency.
I don 't imagine that the newspaper edits advetisements.

David

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@oristarA,

Typo:
Does it look soo simple to be worth mentioning?
=======>>>>>
Does it look too simple to be worth mentioning?

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@oristarA,

cicerone imposter wrote:

This is worth a whole thread? LOL

oristarA wrote:

Does it look soo simple to be worth mentioning?
It tells us that Linguistics is not alone. It involves the Science of Life and the Moral Law ect.
In Aeronautics and Space Science, such simple mistake sometimes kills.
YOU SHOULD NOT MAKE SUCH MISTAKE IN SUCH IMPORTANT POSITION.
Because USAToday online faces more than one hundred million readers!
Comments are appreciated.

That is my position, Oristar. Of course u r correct in everything that u said,
but don 't let JTT find out. He believes (fanatically) that mistakes are OK,
as long as enuf people are making them! (Not everyone is of sound mind, Oristar.)

Whatever 's worth doing
is worth doing WELL.
'Cause it might be IMPORTANT.
U never can tell.

So no matter how little it seems at the START,
if u do it, then do it, with ALL of your heart !

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@oristarA,

Yes, it's worth mentioning. Heck, there's been discussions with a lot less "value" on a2k. If people participate, it means it's got some worth as a topic.

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