Absolute worst sentence I've ever seen in an article
Carol
justcarol67 at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 8 23:20:50 UTC 2009
Here's a gem (verbatim) from an interview of Helena Bonham Carter, aka Bellatrix Lestrange:
"The couple met while they were making Planet to better, playing Bellatrix's in could just doesn't witch high of the Apes in 2001."
Obviously, "of the Apes in 2001" needs to be moved up to follow "Planet," but I have no idea what's going on with the rest of the sentence.
Back in the old days, when we used rolls of hot wax and X-acto knives to (literally) cut and past newspaper articles, a line or two occasionally ended up out of sequence, but how could that happen with a word-processing program?
Just for fun, here's how we cut and pasted in those days (1970s), with a tinyurl just in case:
http://www.creativepro.com/article/heavy-metal-madness-waxing-nostalgic-over-paste-up
http://tinyurl.com/ldxwp6
Anyway, the Bonham Carter article is rather interesting if anyone cares about Bonham Carter's relationship with Tim Burton, and she does get around to talking about playing Bellatrix eventually. here's the URL if you want to read it:
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/showbiz-news/celebrity-interviews/2009/07/06/harry-potter-star-helena-bonham-carter-insists-she-and-gothic-director-tim-burton-are-just-another-couple-86908-21498113/
Needless to say, this one needs a tinyurl:
http://tinyurl.com/kwdfd4
Carol, tempted to take a few minutes to figure out what the sentence was supposed to say but deciding it's not worth the effort
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