11 minutes into the movie Paycheck, starring Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman, Ben’s character looks at this newspaper headline. I should have shut it off at that point and watched something more entertaining, like C-SPAN2.
Paycheck: It’s bad…
Follow Apostrophe Abuse
#1 by Anonymous on September 11, 2007 - 6:23 pm
I noticed this the first time I saw this movie. I made my husband rewind it.
#2 by Anonymous on September 11, 2007 - 6:28 pm
You watched it twice?
#3 by Anonymous on September 11, 2007 - 6:44 pm
I hate you, kenny
#4 by Jenny on September 12, 2007 - 1:35 am
I haven’t seen the movie, but is there any way it could mean “it is the answer” rather than the possessive?
My daughter (7 months) has a onesie that says “Nothings wrong – just testing you”. I keep wanting to draw the apostrophe on with a marker.
#5 by Chris on September 12, 2007 - 1:43 am
Hi Jenny –
Yeah, I tried rationalizing it the same way initially, but if you read the article, you can see that they are referring to Nexim’s “living display” as being the answer to ARC’s:
“Nexim’s living display was unveiled at the Nexim [obscured] tech expo this weekend [obscured]. It is Nexim’s answer to…“
#6 by Jon Swerens on September 13, 2007 - 8:17 pm
Besides, no real copy editor would write a headline with all of that white space beside the word “Nexim.”
I hate when a multi-million-dollar movie can’t do the simplest of research to figure out how to write a headline.
#7 by Maxine Dangerous on September 21, 2007 - 8:26 pm
No WONDER I fell asleep during that movie. Or maybe it was because I’d been forced to see the movie …