Wednesday, October 6, 2010

"Welfare" vs. "Well-fair"


Possibly one of the most horrifying typos I've ever made. (If you missed it, good for you. It's been corrected. Don't worry about it.) This blunder made even more laughable simply for the fact that "well-fair" isn't a word even with the hyphen. 1 + 1 = 0? In this case, yes. Absolutely. I'm all about the sentence fragment - random strings of incomplete thought thrown at the reader much in the same fashion as I violently purge my consciousness through my typing fingertips and out into the world.

I might have ADHD. Perhaps I need to be medicated. Pretty sure that's a topic for a different post. Ignore this section completely. Thanks.

So, yes. I'm all about the sentence fragment. I'm not so much into word fragments or whatever you get when you string two real words together with a hyphen to phonetically spell the word you actually wanted to use but didn't. You know, there should be a word for that. Oh, wait. There is.

Dumb-ass.

It's true. We are our own harshest critics. How about that?

(For those of you hoping this post might offer up my personal opinions on our welfare system or possibly a proposal for an alternative government aid program, I apologize. I'll try to take the implications of my title choice more seriously next time.)


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