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Saturday, February 14, 2015

Criminal Sentence 668: Fifty Shades of Ungrammatical

Happy Valentine's Day! Happy Ungrammatical Day!

From today's paper, in an article about how adult stores are going mainstream:

"Most people are not comfortable talking about how to improve their romance life with a complete stranger."

I had to chuckle at this: People are having romance with a complete stranger? Or are they talking with a complete stranger?

Some people have romance with a complete stranger, but on Valentine's you probably want romance with someone you know!

Let's fix it:

"Most people are not comfortable talking with a complete stranger about how to improve their romance life."

Now, go have some romance with someone, maybe even a stranger!