Am I Being Too Pedantic...

[gnomi]

...or did E Online accidentally use structural ambiguity to imply that there was a time limit on Matt Bomer's orientation?

And even if the White Collar star did publicly aknowledge [sic] he was gay earlier this year*, he's not about to start spilling anytime soon.

*Emphasis mine.

(from the otherwise lovely piece here)

Comments

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

Did they spell it "aknowledge"?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Yes. Thus the [sic]. That typo scared me.

[dpolicar]

Hamlet.
In love with the old man's daughter.
The old man thinks.

[batyatoon]

"The old man thinks" has become my family's tag line for this kind of prone-to-misinterpretation phrasing.

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

I fell over that in college, when a friend said "Did you know I was gay", and I (seriously, because I was stupid) asked "when did you stop being gay?"

Gosh, I was dumb.

I suppose, as a saving grace, that his grammar failure and my resulting literalism remains more significant to me than his orientation.

[half-double.livejournal.com]

For some reason, as soon as I read this, I started singing "Younger than Springtime":

"Younger than springtime, am I,
Gayer than laughter, am I"

In springtime, everyone's gay!