I'm a little teapot ([info]ms_cucumber) wrote in [info]grammarpolice,
@ 2006-09-19 10:31:00
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From http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/19/nyregion/19freedom.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin:

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ETA: Here's what Gawker had to say about it (http://www.gawker.com/news/new-york-times/state-departmentportationion-employees-struggle-with-trauma-department-name-201637.php):
Normally, teasing the NYT over a typo might be beneath even our threshold of interest, but "Departmentportationion"? Seems like a compound mutation of "Department of Taxation [and Finance]," with a little bit of "Transportation" thrown in. Certainly one way to streamline a turgid bureaucracy.

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[info]lemur_man
2006-09-19 02:35 pm UTC (link)
Mmm, stuffed onion.

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[info]newmaryjane
2006-09-19 02:39 pm UTC (link)
That is one fancy onion. Or disgusting, I'm not sure.

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[info]annamatic
2006-09-19 04:07 pm UTC (link)
State depar-jibba-what-now?

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[info]nosleepnever
2006-09-19 04:24 pm UTC (link)
This is what my brain said, also.

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[info]codeman38
2006-09-19 04:47 pm UTC (link)
...Departmentportationion. Wow. That is *definitely* going in the Proofreader's Hall of Shame backlog.

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[info]codeman38
2006-09-19 05:02 pm UTC (link)
...And now I'm wondering if it's in the printed version of the Times as well. I must check that now...

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[info]ms_cucumber
2006-09-19 06:23 pm UTC (link)
I was wondering that too.

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[info]codeman38
2006-09-19 06:35 pm UTC (link)
I just checked, and it's not in the printed version that I had. Rather, it's the Department of Taxation and Finance, with no -portation- involved anywhere.

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[info]scbenji
2006-09-19 04:48 pm UTC (link)
I'm LOLing so hard that my coworkers would probably be thinking I've gone insane if it hadn't already been obvious.

Thank you.

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[info]codeman38
2006-09-19 06:36 pm UTC (link)
It's been corrected in the online article now. Which, I suppose, is a good thing, because I was seriously wondering what exactly a departmentportationion was...

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