Someone from the company died recently. I didn’t know them — this isn’t grief. This is, in fact, copy-editing. Because, well, we’re an insurance agency, and one of the main things we do is handle insurance claims. And that’s the sort of thing that I’d like to think folks would keep in mind when writing up the headline for the company newsletter, to avoid this sort of thing:

“Cancer Claims John Smith”

The phrase cancer claims parses a little bit differently around here than it might in most other places.

This is, by the way, a sequel of sorts to a previous complaint. I think that with all this negativity, I am starting to move into nattering nabob territory.