Copyediting blogpost

Word of the Day:  Schmetterling.  The German word for butterfly.
http://memebase.com/2012/02/27/internet-memes-schmetterlinggggg/
SCHMETTERLIIIIIIING

Good writing of the day:

It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.

This is one of the "Riddles in the Dark" from J.R.R. Tolkein's The Hobbit. The answer to this riddle is, of course, Darkness.

Flub of the Day:

http://failblog.org/2012/02/02/epic-fail-fail-nation-probably-bad-news-business-as-usual/
Nope, there is nothing at all suspicious about a headless body found in a mental hospital.

Word of the week:
"Gratuitous." this word is practically an onomatopoeia despite the fact it does not describe any type of action or sound.  I say this because if I had never heard it before, I would still be able to guess it's meaning simply by the way it sounded.  both its excessive length and energy of its dictation reflect its definition.  Few word represent their meaning in form and fuction the way "gratuitous" does.

Article of the week:

The 5 Most Satisfying Tales of Payback

http://www.cracked.com/article_19633_5-most-satisfying-tales-payback.html

Cracked articles rarely fail to make me laugh but this one has such a deliciously grim cathartic quality that I re-read it several times.

Flub of the Week:
http://failblog.org/2012/01/18/epic-fail-fail-nation-probably-bad-news-protect-the-children/
An unfortuante juxtaposition of the front page picture and headline for a different article.