Letter to the Editor
July 9, 2003
Linguistically challenged
After reading the article "Little town, big boom" in the July 2 issue of The Daily, I'm left wondering if you have any literate humans in your office this summer. Examples of evidence to the contrary: "When lighted, the mixture produced a huge flame." And "Scientists maked red, green, yellow and blue fireworks." If I'm not mistaken, what the writer wanted to say was "When lit ..." or better yet "When ignited ..." and in the second case, "Scientists made ..." Whoever wrote this article is either a total moron with no regard for basics of the English language, helped by complicit editors, or your staff has been replaced by monkeys hammering away at typewriters all day. Full-page inkblots would be more enlightening than the gibberish you've posted to date this summer.
Jeff Hammond
senior, math and chemistry
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