We editors try to conceal it but we are always noticing your grammar flaws! We stop short of correcting your emails using the "track changes" function and then sending them back, but we do it in our heads nevertheless - we can't help ourselves. However, as in the rest of life, celebrities are fair game for open scrutiny, especially when particularly well paid, secretive, or powerful.
The king of the celebrity gaffe was of course George Bush. How we miss him! See a top-20 list.
President Obama's speaking abilities are of course very good but his sentences are not always perfect. Here's one diagrammed for us in the Huffington Post:
Even those of us who following closely the recent trouble in Tiger Woods' family may not have caught this praise for his (or his publicist's) excellent command of grammar under pressure.
Do you have any examples of humorously bad or startlingly good grammar? Dish -- please!
--Ann
My most favorite example of editing a "celebrity" is Vanity Fair's copy edit/fact check of Sarah Palin's speech announcing her resignation as Governor of Alaska.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/07/palin-speech-edit-200907