There's a great story in today's Australian about how the pig industry's in trouble. My favorite bit is this sentence: "Australian Pork's Kathleen Plowman said the industry had literally been decimated: the sow herd was down 30,000 to 300,000." Yes, I majored in Pedantics at Berkeley and so I do notice this stuff, but it would be better if she didn't draw attention to it by flagging it with the word literally.
The other fun bit (leaving aside the whole question of Australian Pork's Kathleen Plowman) is the ambiguous headline. It says "Pig industry appeals to Rudd". But if you really want to enjoy an ambiguous headline (or at least that's what I hope it is) you can't go past this one from earlier this year. Magic darts!
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