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i could blog about things that people might actually want to hear, but this has been bothering me more and more. i've let it slide til now, but as the latest example confronted me while i was at my computer with wireless internet access, i feel i should make my complaints known.

what's with this "replace a letter of a word with a number or something else that looks nothing like the letter" trend that's emerging? those subway adds for 5ive hours til midnight. a 5 looks nothing like an f, or an F. who do they think they are kidding? and se7en. that 7 does not resemble a v. good movie, but that still bugs me. and the one that made me blog is an ad for driv3r. i guess that's supposed to mean driver 3, the third one in the series. it looks awful though. driv3r is not aesthetically pleasing to me in any way. i hope to god the next one in the series is not driv4r. and then driv5r. when will they stop? at driv354r? also, i didn't think of it until i had already started this post, but that stephen spielberg series, t(person thrusting his chest forward)ken did not look like taken. not even close. i remember always calling it tiken or token because that little bastard annoyed me so much.

am i having some problems with tense in this post? i think i might be. there was a book at costco written by some uptight british chick about bad grammar in our world today. it uses that eats shoots and leaves joke that austin is so fond of, albeit in a tamer incarnation. one of the snippet reviews said the book made grammar, among other things, "sexy." i highly doubt that. but i was tempted to buy the book. i do like grammar, although i don't try very hard to make my writings error free. i don't even capitalize. oh well.