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yendi"Naturally there is concern where this new urchin came from and if it is being dredged up from the depths, the affect that may have on it's numbers."
That gem of a sentence doesn't come from a Xanga site written by a semi-literate twelve-year-old.
It's from the motherfucking BBC.
Bad enough that the sentence isn't, well, a sentence. This is a transcription, and if the speaker didn't use proper English, there's not much the writer can do.
On the other hand, getting "affect" and "it's" wrong? Oy.
ETA: As noted by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chris_walsh, there's also a typo in the url. Seriously.
That gem of a sentence doesn't come from a Xanga site written by a semi-literate twelve-year-old.
It's from the motherfucking BBC.
Bad enough that the sentence isn't, well, a sentence. This is a transcription, and if the speaker didn't use proper English, there's not much the writer can do.
On the other hand, getting "affect" and "it's" wrong? Oy.
ETA: As noted by
chris_walsh, there's also a typo in the url. Seriously.