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Has anyone else noticed the erosion of literacy in today's magazines?
Two recent examples:
1. The January Sound&Vision is reviewing a new $8000 integrated from Yamaha.
The first sentence asks: "Are you drooling over those massive UV meters?"
(Don't they mean VU meters?)
2. Another review (can't remember the source) describes some speakers as
"immanently listenable". I think they meant "eminently listenable".
Cowabunga!
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Showing 1 response by trelja

Agreed. As in other measures, grammar in this society has reached an all-time low. No matter the resource level at my (very large and well-respected regional) company, basic acumen in the English language remains more or less nonexistent.

Personally, I find plagiarism (one symptom of the outright dishonesty in this industry as a whole) a far more egregious sin. Multiple episodes on this site, where the general forum had no issue with it, caused my participation and overall faith to plummet to almost nothing.
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