Zen and the Mercury-News
The often eery malapropisms in MN headlines reinforces my belief that headline-writing, like editing, has been outsourced to someplace like India, which speaks a version of English, but not exactly our English.
This one sat on a countertop staring at me for several days, burning itself into my brain: "Spammers get around security trends". I keep trying to resolve the concept of getting around a trend, particularly a "security trend". How exactly does security trend? It's so close to making sense it makes my eyes water.
Somewhere in Bangalore is an Indian editor with an Internet connection and a thesaurus...
