FOR MEN WHO NEED A POST-
OFFICE PICK-ME-UP
I'm a man, and the only thing I'm likely to pick up in the Post Office is a book of stamps.
Granted, putting the crosshead in caps (a trap that the online version avoids) doesn't help, but couldn't the Standard have run with 'post-work' or 'after-office' instead?
2 comments:
Unless I'm imagining it, post- is becoming increasingly conventional as a straight substitute for after — maybe because it's perceived to be fancier. I generally see no good or obvious reason for not using after.
In this case there's nothing wrong with after-office or after-work; neither sounds stilted, as the post- formulations do (at least to my ears), and both would avoid the latter's ambiguity.
On the other hand, I wouldn't have had a chuckle at your post. So maybe I should reconsider my prejudices...
To me it sounds like the post office was in the red light district, but then I didn't see the crosshead in context on the page.
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