2.07.2009

Pet peeve

Something I heard:

News anchor: Can we hear an exert from your book?
Author: *continues as though nothing happened*

What I wish I heard:

News anchor: Can we hear an exert from your book?
Author, after anchor *mysteriously* starts bleeding: Oh my God! Here, let me EXERT pressure on this wound, while I read you an EXCERPT from my book.

If the second scenario happened, I think that the anchor wouldn't be so quick to confuse those words again. What do you think?