Friday, May 18, 2007

Grammar Mistake

From the Lipitor website: If an artery that supplies blood to your heart or to your brain is completely blocked, the result can be a stroke or a heart attack. Methinks this should read "...the result can be a heart attack or stroke." Do you see what I mean? The current sentence construction implies that the stroke happens to your heart. I know...I know...our common sense and intelligence prevail, but the grammar oversight is troublesome. Again...another career opportunity has revealed itself to me: Proofreader for Lipitor Website.

You may be asking "What's so exciting about the Lipitor website?" I got sidetracked reading news online this morning. I started with an article about the stroke rate in southern states...there was a Lipitor advertisement right in the middle...it had the Lipitor guy's picture in it...I thought it was Dr. Jarvik...I was reminded of my Fact or Crap calendar page from a few days ago--it proposed that the name of the first satellite put in orbit was the Jarvik...I knew it was Crap, by the way...I clicked on his picture to confirm my suspicions...his very very very brief bio is at the Lipitor website where he is "talking" about how he has spent a lifetime studying the human heart...the page confirmed his identity and that he was the inventor of the first artificial heart (the Jarvik Artificial Heart)...I then wondered, "What exactly constitutes heart disease?"...it just goes on and on and on...somehow I ended up discovering the faultily constructed sentence above...and then registered for a rebate for my current Lipitor prescription.

2 comments:

The Mad Blogger said...

Good call...another method of correcting the grammar would be to insert the word 'either' into the sentence, making it read "If an artery that supplies blood to your heart or to your brain is completely blocked, the result can be EITHER a stroke or heart attack." Not many would have caught that mistake....it probably takes someone who is a little OCD. :)(or at least someone who doesn't think that grammar is someone you visit on holidays)

Anonymous said...

Way to go my darling daughter.