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Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts) Sat May 25, 2019, 08:35 AM May 2019

Grammar police

Reading an article in Sunset magazine and the title threw me for a minute. Know it's wrong. Family lives in Louisiana... vacation home in Oregon.

Title:

"A Louisiana family dreams up an idyllic outdoor retreat 2,600 miles away from home in Southern Oregon."

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Grammar police (Original Post) Laura PourMeADrink May 2019 OP

Grammar looks ok to me, but you should leave my Grammar alone. And my Grampar too! abqtommy May 2019 #1

Only slightly ambiguous Cirque du So-What May 2019 #2

Yes, perfect way to fix. Think its Laura PourMeADrink May 2019 #3

Yep. Technically accurate... Cirque du So-What May 2019 #4

Most important thing I'll do today, haha..just wrote Laura PourMeADrink May 2019 #5

I'd just scratch "from home." Gidney N Cloyd May 2019 #6

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)

1. Grammar looks ok to me, but you should leave my Grammar alone. And my Grampar too!

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Original post)

Sat May 25, 2019, 08:54 AM

May 2019

Cirque du So-What

(25,939 posts)

2. Only slightly ambiguous

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Original post)

Sat May 25, 2019, 08:57 AM

May 2019

The title makes it clear that the family's home is in LA, however, where it says 'Louisiana family.' This makes the 'home in southern Oregon' phrase invalid.

I suggest...

"A Louisiana family dreams up an idyllic outdoor retreat in Southern Oregon, 2,600 miles away from home."