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John Punched the Lion
There is a commercial that they read on NPR every once in a while for some kind of agency or bureau to encourage people to bring their businesses to Florida. I'm not sure if it only goes out on my local NPR station or if it's part of the nationwide broadcast that all of you hear¹. Today, after hearing it a million times, I finally wrote it down. If I transcribed it correctly (which I believe I did, thank you very much), it ends,
"... helping businesses locate, expand and set up in Florida."
What is the state of the American educational system if we have to have a whole bureau dedicated to helping people locate Florida? It's right down there, dangling into the Gulf of Mexico! Ponce de Leon found it by accident! I am also not really clear on whether they help businesses expand in Florida, or expand Florida itself.
(Life is really hard to parse when you are as horribly horribly nit-picky and literal as I am.)
srah - Thursday, 1 May 2008 - 12:24 PM
Tags: literal, npr
I am that way too. It's part of my job to make sure that sentences actually say what their authors are trying to imply. It's amazing how often they don't.