I guess them's the brakes

I'm not real big on typo threads, but I just opened my Sports Illustrated (or Brett Favre Illustrated), and in DISPLAY type, on Page 60, is the following lift-out sentence from the U.S. Open story: "Her shoes squeaking like subway breaks, Williams won many points simply by virtue of hustle and anticipation."

Subway breaks? Am I missing something? Is Jared break-dancing in the next commercial?
They mean brakes, right?
It also took me less than 5 minutes to read everything in the magazine I found interesting, but that's another thread. Don't know why I still subscribe. Guess I just need the fleece.

 

SI and SI.com have laid off so many quality people that this keeps happening.

It's shocking how poorly edited and proofread it's become in the last 18 months or so.

People that write for SI & SI.com used to get calls constantly from fact checkers. These calls no longer come.

Although there are moments of occasional brilliance, the thing is a shadow of its former self.

 

They try hard too. give 'em a brake..

 

it's a message board. we're not being published here.

we're exchanging ideas and opinions

 

And his opinion is that you don't know the proper use of who vs. that.

 

Not to go all academic, but "that" has a pretty rich history as a relative personal pronoun.

The who-vs.-that distinction is more a matter of style than a matter of being proper or improper. (It's an entirely reasonable and wise style call, I agree.)

http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/who-versus-that.aspx

 

Interesting stuff.

But here, it's still always "who."

 

Who, rather than that.
That, rather than which.

Oh, and Andre Laguerre is spinning like a top.

 

What kind of childhood did you have, Moddy?

 

In their Olympic preview, they had a capsule talking about which US team was "the brainiest" (that would be the fencing team, based on number of Rhodes Scholars, etc.) Anyhow, in that capsule they managed to spell the word "finalist" as "finalest." Ouch.