Perhaps ‘typo’ is too strong a noun, but I find the second paragraph quite jarring:<\/p>\n
\nTropical Storm Bertha, the second storm of the season in the Atlantic Ocean, came ashore in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
As of 2 p.m., the disheveled<\/strong> tropical storm had crossed near the Biloxi Wildlife Management Area. Sustained winds were listed at 45 mph, but those winds were contained mainly in thunderstorms well offshore. The center of circulation was drifting west-northwest at 7 mph. [“<\/em>Tropical Storm Bertha makes landfall in Louisiana<\/a>“, Ben Noll & Matthew Cappucci, WaPo<\/strong>]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Yeah, ‘disheveled.’ Are storms disheveled? There’s usually some human association with things that are disheveled, whether it’s your bedroom or your hairpiece. But a storm?<\/p>\n
This interrupts the reading as the reader mulls the sentence, and that’s not what a good writer wants. I suspect AI actually wrote this, but, sure, a rookie writer could also make that mistake. A friend once tried to get ‘ingest’ by me in a human context.<\/p>\n
“Lisa,” says I, “Humans eat; it’s The Blob that ingests<\/em>.” Sadly, she had not seen The Blob, which lead to lingering disbelief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Perhaps ‘typo’ is too strong a noun, but I find the second paragraph quite jarring: Tropical Storm Bertha, the second storm of the season in the Atlantic Ocean, came ashore in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, on Wednesday afternoon. As of 2 p.m., the disheveled tropical storm had crossed near the \u2026 Continue reading