How about a rogue's gallery of misplaced modifiers in the media? (Too easy a target?)
This just in, from the MetroWest Daily News (MA):
Four Boston-area residents were arrested Sunday after police said they stole a purse from a store worth more than many of the cars in the Natick Collection parking garages.
Nice one, dilettante! And now you've inspired me to start another thread in this same forum featuring a rogue's gallery of bad punctuation, as soon as I get this photo from my camera downloaded into my laptop and uploaded to the web. (Is there a one-word description of that process, I wonder?)
martha said:
...as soon as I get this photo from my camera downloaded into my laptop and uploaded to the web. (Is there a one-word description of that process, I wonder?)
How about "to flickr"?
Dan Henderson
Sunnyvale, CA
Hmmmmm, like "Xerox" and "Kleenex" becoming lower-case generics? Might work, Dan. (Although I think I prefer the sound of "to snapfish"!)
martha said:
as soon as I get this photo from my camera downloaded into my laptop and uploaded to the web. (Is there a one-word description of that process, I wonder?)
"Upload"?
Maybe we could google for the answer. I have to go now, my computer is microsofting.