Maelstroms don't swirl frantically

" I HAVE PUT UP with your abuse of the English language, have put up with repeated speculations based on no facts whatever, but a story that your so-called "journalist" Eva Glass filed today quite simply takes the biscuit.

"This lady, no doubt hiding her true identity under a bushel, closed her rumor-laden piece about Nvidia, Intel and Microsoft with the following line.

"'It's good to know that the maelstrom which is the PC industry continues to swirl just as frantically as it always has done.'

"What sort of school did this lady attend?

"Maelstrom is used to describe a terrible whirlpool off Norway which dragged ships and therefore poor sailors to their doom and is originally of Dutch derivation.

"Just explain to me how a "maelstrom" can "whirl frantically" when a maelstrom is a whirlpool and therefore by its very nature is... a whirlpool.

"Last week Eva wrote a terrible story where she claimed to be a seductress in a parking lot somewhere in Fremont. This is the last straw. I trust you will no longer use her services. "µ

[Yup, she's fired... Ed.]