Spudtater's Journal

There are certain ways of writing that have passed into general acceptance, such as writing "for free", which annoy a minority of people; there are others that still annoy a lot of people, like the message that landed in my Inbox from Informatics the other day, entitled "London Event Invite - Lecture & Reception". The reason some people find incorrect sentences annoying is because it clashes and makes them pause to understand the meaning.