Take, for example, this Facebook virus, er, I mean, viral posting:
In it, the author makes the claim that he or she is smart. Oh yeah, so smart, and can't even figure out apostrophe usage.
No doubt the Health Care System is abused. No doubt at all. I marvel only at the graphic, in which someone took the time to come up with a clever rhyme, arrange it aesthetically, claim authority by saying "I'm smart," and then, in the same line of text, commit an error with the apostrophe. And I didn't even mention the quotation misuse at the end of the previous stanza. Such errors rob the author of the very authority he or she claims. That he or she took such time to create this graphic for public dissemination, but didn't take the time to check it for errors prior to publishing: it undermines the whole point.
Say what you want about Rush Limbaugh, but when he is correctly quoted as saying, "If this passes and it's five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented - I am leaving the country. I'll go to Costa Rica." So now, we get to make fun of him for the fact that he's an idiot - because Costa Rica has the very Universal Healthcare he is trying to escape. Also, it motivates me to want Universal Healthcare in the U.S., because perhaps Mr. Limbaugh will keep that promise.
You, my friend, are fighting a loosing battle with this one! I'm afraid to write more for fear of your finding fault with it! ;-)
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