Monday, July 21, 2008

TBS: The Language Police Are Paying Attention To You

Miss Edith knows perfectly well that this is a losing, stupid battle she's about to fight, but this is really pissing her off:

TBS is running -- constantly running -- these ads for itself that boast something like "More TV, Less Commercials." To be honest, I'm not sure I got that right; my brain is perhaps a little fried in this heat wave. But I know for sure that the second part of it is "less commercials."

Here's the thing, folks: you, my loyal readers, surely will agree with me that those jackasses at TBS oughta change it to the correct "fewer commercials."

FEWER commercials, damnit. Is it too much to ask? (I mean, syntactically speaking, here; I don't expect them to actually reduce the number of commercials they air. That'd be unthinkable and even Miss Edith knows it...)

I don't see the point in sounding stupid unless it's artfully done. TBS, which is presumably a company with scads of copywriters and editors and all kinds of people like that who have writing experience, college degrees, and maybe even things like MFAs (god help me), really ought to fucking know better.

Thank you.