Error’d: Pure Poetry

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The Daily WTF

Abandoning alliteration, the column this week is experimenting with consonance. Next week, perhaps we’ll see how everyone feels about assonance.

Job-hunter Despreately Looking for Internship shared this job posting, writing “AMD Job Lsiting forgot to add in the deatils”. Seems like a pretty easy job to perform; Mx. Des should apply.

Rosti fan Stefan Pletosu (and who isn’t?) uncovers a subtler substitution error that Mx. Despreately missed. “Why would they call me a lead? I’m just a junior” he humbly demurs.

Dislocated Lincoln figures “Someone needs to go back to school and study maths.”

Nanoscale philanthropist Adam R. references my favorite derived unit in this headscratcher. “I made a $50 donation plus fees, and in fact that’s what my credit card was charged, but my PayPal activity statement seems to think I only made a 5 millicent donation.”

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