The Basics
This might be me and my primary-literature addled brain acting up, but I have to ask something. Sometimes, I’m fine when I read the word “dishonest.” But other times, when I read the word “dishonest,” my brain says “dish-honest.” Should I be seeing a doctor for this? We’ll try an example. This is a writer for The Inquirer who is talking about ethical guidelines when editorial content and the interests of advertisers clash.
Basically, there are honest editors/owners/management and dishonest ones. The dishonest ones will lean on people to do things that they know better than to do. The honest ones will leave, the dishonest ones will stay, and you quickly get a dishonest organization.
Did your brain do anything goofy? Sometimes I wonder wonder what’s going on up there.
Comments
Dan McKeown
Well mine did not until you pointed that word out. Now I cannot seem to see it right ever.
Justin Gehring
How honest can the dishonest Inquirer be (especially about dishes), or is it that the writer is trying to say the honest people (do the dishes) go to work for the Inquirer, making them an honest place to (have dinner) work at least for the time being, until all the honest people decide to leave then they will all be dishonest people. But what about the flow (or conversation factors) of dishonest people to honest people and vice versa? Is the writer of the above quote trying to say that people don’t change they just leave? Or is the writing trying to be dishonest by feeding us a load of crap piled on a nice pretty dish.
Better yet, lets take the quote and put lots of things in parens:
Basically, there are (dis)honest editors/owners/management and (dis)honest ones. The (dis)honest ones will lean on people to do things that they know better than to (or not to) do. The (dis)honest ones will leave, the (dis)honest ones will stay, and you quickly get a (dis)honest organization.
Ok, time to do something (dif)ferent for a bit before i get anymore (loon)ey
Nils
I’m with Dan. I used to be fine with the word. Now I look at it and see “dish-honest”. Damn it, thanks Alex!
Sophie P.
Its the same for me- i only noticed when it was pointed out …. same way when i was in high school and one girl said that she remembers how to spell “TOGETHER” by remembering it as “TO-GET-HER” - to this day, i pause when i get to this word because my little mind gets confused….