anonymoose
Active Member
The start of Joe W's crapfest of an article:
TORONTO - Mayor Rob Ford wants all parking tickets issued to vehicles around Remembrance Day ceremonies ripped up and thrown away.
He also wants answers about why the cars were tagged in the first place?
Why is there a question mark?!?!?!
I understand The Sun doesn't use big words and uses short sentences to appeal to people who aren't such big readers but surely the rules of English grammar still apply, don't they?!
How does this man still have a job? He's just so, so terrible.
The hilarious part is that the very next sentence/paragraph needs a question mark, but doesn't have one?
How many soldiers died in Canada’s wars so that parking officers could issue parking tickets to those gathered to pay homage to them on Remembrance Day.
(Yes, I know there are some contexts where sentences that are phrased as questions end with a period and not a question mark, but I don't think this is one.)
And of course, the next sentence after that continues in the same vein, but actually has a question mark. Yay for consistency!
And just how many tickets did Toronto’s parking assassins write on Nov. 11?
I also like the way that the (now-corrected) misspelling of "Remembrance" in the headline has been immortalized in the article URL (purposely not properly linking it here):
hxxp://www.torontosun.com/2014/11/12/parking-tickets-issued-during-east-york-remebrance-day-parade
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