• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    maxxing

    using everyday

    The spelling mistakes is how we know this wasn’t journalism.

    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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      A) that’s what editors are for. Journalists need to be persistent, observant, and fearless, not to know every case of English compound words being joined together or not.

      B) Only one of those is a mistake, the other is just language being language. They could say maxing (or even maximizing), but that won’t let the reader find more information as easily, so it would be worse journalism.