once in a while you have to simply take the time to smell the typos. and if that semiotically failed aphorism suffuses the tone, then take this lovely headline from a major film media rag:
The Contenders - We look at which films will dike it out for Oscar gold!
"dike it out"?? really, is this a simple middle finger versus index finger faux pas? Why would anyone these days use the word dike for any purpose other than to talk about flooding in the netherlands or denmark? Hell out on the left coast folks go out of their way to call dikes levees just to avoid any social dysphemization. But these films are going to dike it out. Really pretty strange, this lesbianization of oscar gold. Still one has to wonder even about the typo. Duking it out, such an old ancient cliche for fisticuffs hauled out to suggest battle, mistyped to suggest lesbians. Unless one can possibly imagine how a large earthen barrier would be erected by one film against another?
And please pray tell me, where was the freakin editor on this one? We are talking a herald tribune paper and national herald by-line. Were the various editors in on this one, a tongue in cheeky chortle at the expense of the fundamentalist bashers of hollywood? Consider all the possibilities!
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