Jim takes on ticklish headlines.
Such was the conclusion you might draw from reading a headline in a recent story in the Daily Herald -- without reading the story itself.
"Oh boy," she wrote me when I shared with her Kathy's letter."For someone like me, who is always railing against misplaced modifiers, this one hurts. I feel a bit as if I'm back in Mrs. Ratner's language arts class at River Trails Middle School, receiving a deserved scolding for diagraming a sentence badly."
While I made no such request, the editor went back into the story and reposted it with the improved headline:"Kids with cancer -- and a sibling -- can attend TLC Camp in Lombard."Malaphors Another occasional problem is malaphors -- the word a portmanteau of"malapropism" and"metaphor" -- is one I dare say all of us fall prey to on occasion.
This is a very common malaphor. In fact, it has become an idiom unto itself, exploding out of nowhere in the early 1980s. I've even found online dictionary definitions for it.
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