Let’s All Try To Be Way Too Clever, Shall We?

17 Mar

My GF recently graduated from esthetics school so she could get licensed in Texas and is in the process of looking for a job. On this journey she has found spa websites with lots of typos, companies who have the same position open every three months and places where PigPen wouldn’t even go into.

Today she found an ad for a rather nice spa in Austin called Milk and Honey.


Milk and Honey Craigslist ad

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Noticed the underlined words, specifically the use of the word partisan. For those of you who didn’t click on the link, a partisan is, “an adherent or supporter of a person, group, party, or cause, especially a person who shows a biased, emotional allegiance.” That is the preferred definition according to dictionary.com. The second one has military/guerrilla connotations.

Now I have made more than my share of grammar and word choice mistakes, many of which can be found on this blog but…