little panda ([info]ms_cucumber) wrote in [info]grammarpolice,
2006-09-19 10:31:00
From http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/19/nyregion/19freedom.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin:

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ETA: Here's what Gawker had to say about it (http://www.gawker.com/news/new-york-times/state-departmentportationion-employees-struggle-with-trauma-department-name-201637.php):
Normally, teasing the NYT over a typo might be beneath even our threshold of interest, but "Departmentportationion"? Seems like a compound mutation of "Department of Taxation [and Finance]," with a little bit of "Transportation" thrown in. Certainly one way to streamline a turgid bureaucracy.

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[info]lemur_man

September 19 2006, 14:35:47 UTC 5 years ago

Mmm, stuffed onion.

[info]newmaryjane

September 19 2006, 14:39:55 UTC 5 years ago

That is one fancy onion. Or disgusting, I'm not sure.

[info]annamatic

September 19 2006, 16:07:16 UTC 5 years ago

State depar-jibba-what-now?

[info]nosleepnever

September 19 2006, 16:24:01 UTC 5 years ago

This is what my brain said, also.

[info]codeman38

September 19 2006, 16:47:09 UTC 5 years ago

...Departmentportationion. Wow. That is *definitely* going in the Proofreader's Hall of Shame backlog.

[info]codeman38

September 19 2006, 17:02:57 UTC 5 years ago

...And now I'm wondering if it's in the printed version of the Times as well. I must check that now...

[info]ms_cucumber

September 19 2006, 18:23:03 UTC 5 years ago

I was wondering that too.

[info]codeman38

September 19 2006, 18:35:08 UTC 5 years ago

I just checked, and it's not in the printed version that I had. Rather, it's the Department of Taxation and Finance, with no -portation- involved anywhere.

[info]scbenji

September 19 2006, 16:48:30 UTC 5 years ago

I'm LOLing so hard that my coworkers would probably be thinking I've gone insane if it hadn't already been obvious.

Thank you.

[info]codeman38

September 19 2006, 18:36:21 UTC 5 years ago

It's been corrected in the online article now. Which, I suppose, is a good thing, because I was seriously wondering what exactly a departmentportationion was...
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