Saruwatari Ayumi (junglemonkee) wrote,
Saruwatari Ayumi
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When Poor Use of Grammar Gets Your Hopes Up

I was listening to the NYT Audio Digest on my way to work this morning and heard the account of an intruder who "jumped a fence onto the White House lawn, where Mr. Bush was at home before being arrested by the Secret Service."

And I allowed myself, for one tiny second, to be wildly hopeful.
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