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Thanks to Eric.

An attempt at AP Style gone wrong

(Or: Things originally discovered by Dan.)

Full article here. Also note this is the "corrected version."

Why would they do that? Why?

Hyphen, hyphen, go away ... come again another day.

This e-mail is also an offender in the world of Arbitrary Capitalization. I'm unlikely to do it myself but am much less a stickler on the failure to use a comma following Hi, even though it's technically correct to use one. Because sometimes you just don't want a pause there.

But wait, there's more (from the same person):

Owwww, it hurts. It physically hurts.