[danielhunt]

Is it just me, or is this title missing a 'to'?

How to pitch a journalist - surely I can't be the only one thinking that this contains instructions on how best to throw a journalist 10 meters in any direction...

I've noticed this quite a bit in American posts - words clearly missing, but no one cares

[derrida]

The English language is a flexible thing. Some think that "y'all" is not 'proper', but name another single word second person collective pronoun in English. Some English in America also has "write me" instead of "write to me".

[ballooney]

I sympathise with Daniel Hunt in my heart though I rationally see where you're coming from. If I were to give a nice blank canvas as a gift to a child and they were to smear excrement all over it, in my gut I'd be annoyed but I could probably be talked around to the idea that it's a valid form of self-expression, even if it's not my cup of tea.

However, saying "I could care less" when you mean "I could not care less". There is no justification for such a heinous crime. Murderers can be rehabilitated, electro-convulsive therapy can take care of all manor of criminal perversions, so save your death penalty for when it is really in the public interest. For the unconvinced, the Guardian newspaper made a little video:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2010/may/20/la...

[danielhunt]

How to pitch an idea How to pitch a journalist

How to pitch to an idea How to pitch to a journalist

... Flexible or not, that word fundamentally changes the meaning of the sentence

[frugalfirbolg]

"Write me" is an example of a shortened phrase, probably derived from "Write me a letter", versus "Write to me".

Honestly I thought "How to pitch a journalist" might mean how to endorse a journalist if it didn't happen to be a typo.

Interestingly enough, none of my friends from Georgia or Alabama use "Y'all" when writing/typing. I did a cursory search on Google, filtering to personal, and only found the slang used when joking about Southern accents.

[frugalfirbolg]

I was going to mention it if you didn't. I keep seeing signs of the population returning to a "Ready, Fire, Aim, er wait" mentality, but hopefully I'm just hypersensitive to those signs.

As Wyatt Earp said, "Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything".