Template:Did you know nominations/Word Crimes

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The result was: promoted by Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:04, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Word Crimes[edit]

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... that "Word Crimes", "Weird Al" Yankovic's lexicology-based song parody of Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines", has been likened to a modern-day Schoolhouse Rock!?
- Alt ... that "Word Crimes", "Weird Al" Yankovic's grammar-based song parody of Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines", has been likened to a modern-day Schoolhouse Rock!?

Reviewed: Floortje Mackaij
Comment: Source (for the comparison) [1]. I will be handling the DYK but will be giving the article's key author credit

Created by Saginaw-hitchhiker (talk), Masem (talk). Nominated by Masem (talk) at 15:16, 16 July 2014 (UTC).

Comment: The song is not really lexicology-based. Rather, it's prescriptive grammar-based, or perhaps more concisely just grammar-based. —Mr. Granger (talk · contribs) 22:48, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

Provided an alt blurb to just "grammar"-based. --MASEM (t) 01:49, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

New enough, long enough, interesting article and hook. For what it's worth, I would suggest using the word "contemporary" instead of "modern-day" due to close paraphasing and it just sounds better to me. 1973–2009 is not exactly olden days. Helen Online 10:14, 4 August 2014 (UTC)