it's become this bad

HeidiHole · Aug 30, 2008

I had the Blue Jays-Yankees game on this afternoon, on CBC-TV (national network of record in Canada). Between innings, the text of a plug for MLB.com's Internet feed of Jays' games appeared on screen. It started with:

"When your on the road, follow the Blue Jays on ..."

This is becoming more frequent everywhere, but I never thought I'd see it where I did.

Matera the Mad · Aug 30, 2008

omfg

Williebee · Aug 30, 2008

Poor grammar? Or just crappy proof-reading?

C.bronco · Aug 30, 2008

Where's Ray?

maestrowork · Aug 30, 2008

To which I can only reply: Up you're's.

Williebee · Aug 30, 2008

considering your location, wouldn't that be "up ya'll's" ?

Priene · Aug 30, 2008

HeidiHole said:
This is becoming more frequent everywhere, but I never thought I'd see it where I did.

I've seen mistakes like this on BBC News 24. If even the BBC can't be bothered to check its grammar, I figure the battle is almost over.

Woodsie · Aug 30, 2008

That stuff drives me crazy.

kct webber · Aug 30, 2008

My on? I don't own an on. And if I did, I wouldn't let it play in the road.

Maryn · Aug 31, 2008

Contact the Blue Jays. Seriously. They probably don't want to look like buffoons to people who paid attention in elementary school.

I've contacted local car dealers selling van's and truck's, an online retailer using its' as a possessive and failing to capitalize the first words in sentences, and a regional stereo chain whose hand-lettered comic-book-like ads always screw up your/you're and sometimes to/too, too. They fix things, for a while. The online retailer was terribly apologetic, offered no excuses, and thanked me for pointing it out.

Here's who you write to:

John Matthew IV
Marketing Producer
Toronto Blue Jays
1 Blue Jays Way
Suite 3200, Rogers Centre
Toronto, ON M5V 1J1

You might mention the price of beer at Rogers Centre, too. Outrageous!

Maryn, woman of action

Dawnstorm · Aug 31, 2008

Mistakes happen. It's not the end of the world as we know it. Actually, mistakes not happening would be the end of the world as we know it. (EDIT: I agree with Maryn, but I'm a man of inaction.)

IceCreamEmpress · Aug 31, 2008

These same mistakes were common in newspapers and magazines and even some hastily-produced books of 200 years ago.

SLThomas · Aug 31, 2008

HeidiHole said:
I had the Blue Jays-Yankees game on this afternoon, on CBC-TV (national network of record in Canada). Between innings, the text of a plug for MLB.com's Internet feed of Jays' games appeared on screen. It started with:

"When your on the road, follow the Blue Jays on ..."

This is becoming more frequent everywhere, but I never thought I'd see it where I did.

Ouch!

it's become this bad

HeidiHole

Matera the Mad

Bartender, gimme a Linux Mint

Williebee

Capeless, wingless, & yet I fly.

C.bronco

I have plans...

maestrowork

Fear the Death Ray

Williebee

Capeless, wingless, & yet I fly.

Priene

Out to lunch

Woodsie

I have tendencies.

kct webber

Squirrel, Sekrit type, 1 ea.

Maryn

I Tried

Dawnstorm

punny user title, here

IceCreamEmpress

Hapless Virago

SLThomas