Coldplay lyrics...

can make me wish I didn't understand English.

- Jon Pareles, in The New York Times

(cf. almost every opera libretto ever.)

Swords into plowshares; bullets into bullet-points

or

PowerPoint makes us stupid.

- Gen. James N. Mattis, USMC, in the New York Times

Murakami bingo

Ha! Tremendous.

[With thanks to NM.]

Inconstancy, thy name is 'Middleteon'

An article on Page 34 this weekend about London and Londoners misspells the surname of a member of the royal family at one point. As the article correctly notes elsewhere, she is Kate Middleton, not Middleteon.

- New York Times magazine

Awful. The worst kind of wrong. (And surely she's not anymore, anyway.)