“Holy moly!”
“Hmmm?” “How on earth did he manage to keep that quiet?”
“Who?”
“Trump.”
“Donald?”
“The very same.”
“Keep what quiet?”
“That he had transitioned.”
“No, he hasn’t – not yet.”
“But he must have.”
“And how exactly do you work this one out?”
“Well, that’s what it says here – in this week’s Sunday Times.”
“Don’t go believing everything you read in the press. Even if it’s The Sunday Times: the stuff they ha …”
“But he is a man!”
“Of course he is a man.”
“So he must have transitioned!”
“Look, he is only a Republican nominee for now: the presidential election isn’t until November, so …”
“No, no, no!”
“Yes, yes, yes: Americans will be electing their president on November 8th; it’s a Tuesday, I believe.”
“No, no, not that!”
“So what?”
“I had no idea he was born a girl, no idea at all – fancy that!”
“A girl? Of course he wasn’t born a girl; don’t be silly!”
“But that’s what Ivanka Trump said – his daughter.”
“What?”
As a young girl growing up, my father told me I could do anything that I set my mind to.
“Oh this! It’s just her grammar.”
“What do you mean?”
“Look, it’s a very common error.”
“It is?”
“Yep; I call this ‘marketing as’.”
“Marketing as?”
“Yep, they are always coming up with stuff like: ‘As one of our best customers, we are pleased to offer you this exclusive deal’; I keep getting marketing literature strewn with such nonsense – so does everybody else.”
“O-o-o, so it was her.”
“Of course it was her; look; what she should have said is this.”
As a young girl growing up, I was told by my father I could do anything that I set my mind to.
“M-m-m, she would … I mean he would have been too young to father a child anyway.”
“Look, it’s just a misrelated phrase – just like a dangling participle.”
“A dangling participle – what’s that?”
“Another time.”
As funny as usual, Anna 😀 – extraordinary how journalists still get it wrong and subeditors don’t spot it.
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Isn’t it just, Jennie! Thank you so much for popping by; hope you are flourishing.
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I’m doing well, thanks Anna – not much happening with my blogs because I’ve been too busy with everything else 🙂 Hope you’re doing well.
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Thank you Anna, only just received it as I have been travelling .
What a difference a few extra words can make
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Indeed, Deborah. Thank you for popping by; I hope you’ve enjoyed your travels 🙂
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