[Ads-l] Grammatical error in the New Yorker

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 8:16 PM, Jocelyn Limpert <jocelyn.limpert at gmail.com>
wrote:

> "scheduled to published" should be "scheduled to publish"


How can you tell that that is a grammatical error and not a lapsus calami?

Perhaps I should clarify. IMO, that is an "error" only just in case that
the speaker/writer believes that there is no error. Would the writer of
this article argue that "scheduled to published" is "correct" and that
"scheduled to publish" is mere pedantry? Would anyone else? To quote Noam
Chomsky, "I think not" or, as Homey the Clown used to put it, "I don't
think so."



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