May. 17th, 2004 12:01 pm
Have you met Phil A. Dendrom?
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So maybe I go on too much about bad spelling, but sometimes I find it simply baffling. I mean, I understand that anyone can have a bad day (like
rollick with her recent Brauhaus post) and that it's difficult to look up a word if you've never seen it written, only heard it, or to remember the spelling of a word in a language you don't speak. However, how do you explain this sign on a plant in the staff lounge:
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VARIEGATED PHILADENDROMNow, setting aside for a moment the fact that the plant is decidedly not a member of the Philodendron genus (as we learned from last year's plant quiz, it's actually an Epipremnum aureum, also known as a "pothos"), how does it escape the person typing up the card that there might be a connexion of some sort between the scientific name and the popular? And how did they find (and correctly spell) the former when they so badly munged the latter?
(Philodendron scandens)
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The stupid person, on the other hand, would probably wonder why we're wasting our time worrying about stuff like that.
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