cyrnel

Especially when found on job applications.

And since this is quickly morphing into another holier-than-thou bitch fest, how about redundant plurals, or whatever they're called: Softwares, firmwares, spywares, deers, etc. (*kick!*)

Really, I'd be happier if I didn't notice these things at all. I did some editing years ago which didn't help, but I get indigestion thinking what it must be like to have worked through an English degree and then be thrown to the barbarians. It's already terribly distracting. Coping methods, please?

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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195