RE: The Edge of Greatness? (was "Errors")

["Lauren" <lt34 -at- csus -dot- edu>]

When I first read this, I read "us" and not "it."

The "it" is wrong, but the rest of the phrase is consistent with the
Declaration of Independence.

Lauren
 

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> Behalf Of Dori Green
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 6:35 AM
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> Subject: The Edge of Greatness? (was "Errors")
> 
> Is an error an error if nobody else notices or cares?
> 
> I just saw a great billboard.  I'm sure it's an effective ad 
> campaign.  I'm very actively anti-violence and anti-war but 
> it raised a patriotic thrill in my heart.
> 
> Aircraft carrier with three escorts (looks like two 
> minesweepers and a destroyer bringing up the rear).  
> Everybody steaming ahead through grey-blue water with 
> grey-blue clouds, the only spot of color the flags on the 
> carrier.  Great big letters at the top of the picture:
> 
> LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT
>    OF ALL WHO THREATEN IT.
> 
> 
> Dang, I can't just enjoy stuff like this any more.  With all 
> the resources of the US Navy couldn't they have had an editor 
> look at this before they slapped it up?
> 
> It's probably just me.  Nobody else cares that it isn't 
> 
> LIFE.  LIBERTY.
> 
> AND THE PURSUIT
>    	OF ALL WHO THREATEN THEM.
> 
> 
> ...and the correction would probably not make the ad any more 
> or less effective.
> 
> Is it just tech writers and English teachers who care about 
> this stuff, at least until it's beaten out of us?  It just 
> bothers me when something is _that_ close to being truly 
> exceptional and misses because of something so basic.
> 
> Aw, go ahead and say it's just me.
> 
> I got a nice 8.5x11 glossy print of the ad from my local 
> recruiter.  I'm posting it in my office (with the correction) 
> to remind me to go ahead and sweat the small stuff when I 
> can, because sometimes it _does_ make that difference.  And 
> my father was a Lt. J-G and I like the picture.
> 
> Dori Green
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