Having recently written a post about bad grammar versus evolving grammar, I had to share a few corkers from a post my colleague, Gareth van Onselen, wrote on Inside Politics about the vicious circle of poor language and poor reasoning.
The post provides quite a detailed critique of the language used by Sunday Independent journalist, Edwin Naidu. For my part, I merely want to share a selection of some of his particularly bizarre turns of phrase.
As Van Onselen notes:
“A good test of any metaphor is to imagine what it would look like as a picture. If it is a mixed metaphor, or confused in any way, the picture one conjures up will be bizarre and, most likely, humorous which, if that is not your intention, will have the effect of distracting from the central narrative, undermining the strength of the argument and, ultimately, lowering one’s opinion of that particular piece of writing.”
So, for a laugh, try to imagine how Zapiro or Tony Grogan might illustrate each of these 
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