memo

[fox]

to:  Washington Post
from:  Fox
re:  "The Uttermost Part of the Earth"

Dear sir:

I am enjoying your article on Tierra del Fuego.  I admit that I was initially put off by its title, "The Uttermost Part of the Earth", but I see that this is an allusion to a three-generation-old hyperbole, rather than a modern failure to understand the meaning of "uttermost", so I'm over it.  I must suggest, thought, that you fire the fact-checker, please, or whomever is responsible for the first sentence in the eighth paragraph, the one that begins "Magellan may have been the first non-European to see this area".  (Bold-facing is mine.)

Comments

[thalia]

Oops.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Fox: pwning the Washington Post since - well, since I started reading her, anyway.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

I left a comment on the article: "Somehow I doubt that Magellan was the first *non*-European to do anything. Call it a hunch."

I don't think that's pedantry, is the thing. A ten-year-old child ought to be able to spot that mistake. Gah!

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Magellan: Secretly Japanese!!!!!

[corvidae9.livejournal.com]

*falls down laughing* You win. :D

Fox-- *points up* What she said. :P