{"id":1048,"date":"2004-12-07T03:37:29","date_gmt":"2004-12-07T07:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/07\/geographic-malapropism\/"},"modified":"2007-07-29T21:27:34","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T01:27:34","slug":"geographic-malapropism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/07\/geographic-malapropism\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Geographic malapropism&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Heh.  I find <a target=\"NewWindow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/12\/07\/opinion\/07tue-correx.html?ex=1260162000&amp;en=6348f357ece4ba2b&amp;ei=5088&amp;partner=rssnyt\">this<\/a> mistake in the NY Times more amusing than I probably should.  They still can&#8217;t figure out how to fire Judith Miller, but when they make an obvious, amateur error they sure know how to point it out:<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p> An editorial published on Saturday about the proposal to build a football stadium on the far West Side of Manhattan suffered from a geographic malapropism in a reference to the New York subway. <strong>The line proposed for the East Side is known as the Second Avenue line, not the No. 2 line. The No. 2 line runs up the West Side of Manhattan, as it has for, oh, 100 years. We not only approve of its existence &#8211; we applaud it. Some of us even ride it.<\/strong> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You just know that they got, like, a thousand e-mails pointing this out.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heh. I find this mistake in the NY Times more amusing than I probably should. They still can&#8217;t figure out how to fire Judith Miller, but when they make an obvious, amateur error they sure know how to point it out: An editorial published on Saturday about the proposal to build a football stadium on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[15,14],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-current-events","tag-new-york-city"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-gU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}