Before I was finished reading the first sentence of this article ("
Man leaps to his death from casino on Las Vegas Strip" on Yahoo! Canada News on March 4, 2011), I'd already detected an error. There shouldn't be a hyphen between newly and built. In the article's second sentence,
readers learn that the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police have a spokesman named Marcus Martin. Okay,
but then two sentences later, what are readers supposed to make of this? And now, something amazing:
This is at the bottom of the rather short article
. Seriously?! Three people involved in this seven-sentence article and this is the crap that's produced? Ridiculous. Plus, the word after a semicolon should not be capitalized unless it's a proper noun. Seriously ridiculous. Click an image to enlarge it.
Before I was finished reading the first sentence of this article ("Man leaps to his death from casino on Las Vegas Strip" on Yahoo! Canada News on March 4, 2011), I'd already detected an error. There shouldn't be a hyphen between newly and built. In the article's second sentence,
readers learn that the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police have a spokesman named Marcus Martin. Okay,
but then two sentences later, what are readers supposed to make of this? And now, something amazing:
This is at the bottom of the rather short article. Seriously?! Three people involved in this seven-sentence article and this is the crap that's produced? Ridiculous. Plus, the word after a semicolon should not be capitalized unless it's a proper noun. Seriously ridiculous. Click an image to enlarge it.
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