Internet Grammar Hall of Shame

Matera the Mad · Sep 23, 2015

Ow

should see a doctor to discussion then and be checked

Def not saying where I found this, but it was not a sleazy blog.

Maryn · Sep 24, 2015

That one, though, reads to me like an ESL person doing the best they can in English. I see it a lot at some of the Q&A places I go when I should be doing other things.

What I find far more disheartening are the American teens who are righting a fiction novel and ask what it should be about.

Matera the Mad · Oct 8, 2015

I am 99.999% certain that last one was not an ESL case. I'm very careful to exclude them. In this case. it really should have been caught before publishing. To me, it looked like sloppy proofreading. End-of-line oversights and cut/paste remnants leave errors that don't get spotted because the writer "knows" everything is okay. Zooming text up/down and looking it over with a different font can kick hidden tyops into view, by altering the word pattern so that it doesn't fit the mental image any more.

Here's a case where sloppy usage and slobby pronunciation get together and have a small party on the website of a large, unnamed organization:

...******s can pursue two distinct job tracts...

I will, of course, be a good citizen and inform them.

Matera the Mad · Oct 28, 2015

Stops Credit Card Fraud Dead in it's Tracks

I certainly hope so. Can I scream now?

Dennis E. Taylor · Oct 28, 2015

it's/its is probably the number one grammar/spelling/punctuation error, closely followed by you're/your, with they're/there/their bringing up a distant third.

No, I don't have statistics. It just seems like that's what I see more than anything else.

Milenio · Oct 28, 2015

Aaaahhhh, the poor abused and misused apostrophe. I think I'll open a home for the poor things, where they can get the love and attention they deserve.

Milenio · Oct 28, 2015

From a headline in my news feed this morning (they're so obliging!)

Google has announced its intention to complete the first ring of it its internet-beaming balloon service by the end of 2016.

Maryn · Oct 29, 2015

I admit I had to read that twice to see the goof. The eye sees what ought to be there.

In other news, my nephew Brian is on the design team for those balloons.

Matera the Mad · Oct 31, 2015

LOL the balloon oops looks like a line-end job.

Earlier today I was digging info in a wiki I use frequently (and have editing powers in) and wincing every other minute, but didn't want to take time to slaughter the poor little apostrophleas. They will not be spared forever.

juniper · Oct 31, 2015

Maryn said:
In other news, my nephew Brian is on the design team for those balloons.

No way! That's very cool.

Maryn · Nov 1, 2015

He's not allowed to talk about it directly, but his travel schedule makes it pretty clear. He's a great guy, funny and smart both. Our niece married well!

In keeping with the subject at hand, here's a golden oldie I saw at Yahoo Answers when I filtered the questions for US users only: What can I eat, I think I'm lack toes intollrunt?

Milenio · Nov 1, 2015

Maryn said:
In keeping with the subject at hand, here's a golden oldie I saw at Yahoo Answers when I filtered the questions for US users only: What can I eat, I think I'm lack toes intollrunt?

Oh my goodness! One can have so much fun with a sentence like that!

Milenio · Nov 1, 2015

One of my pet hates in terms of grammar, is the use of "poisonous" and "venomous". My husband keeps telling me that the people on TV can't hear me when I shout out the difference :Headbang:

anastasiareeves · Nov 1, 2015

I know this isn't Internet related, but the law firms that advertise "bad drugs" on TV finally got wise to their grammar issue with the statement of "if you have had these symptoms that resulted in injury or even death." Well, it's a damn miracle that in my death I am able to pursue a law suit, isn't it? Now they say "or a loved one even died." Still clunky but, at least they're not asking me to speak from the grave anymore.

Maryn · Nov 2, 2015

Local ads are so ripe for this category, aren't they?

Years ago there was a TV ad for a store called Hide 'n Chic. Only the voice-over was "Hide and Chick!"

Dennis E. Taylor · Nov 2, 2015

Local ads. OMG. "Go see Cal and his dog, Spot." (It was a pig). The DIW commercials up from Seattle used to make my eyes bug out in disbelief. 'Course, we have some stinkers coming out of the island, as well.

"We've got crab-legs, at Sea Galley!"

:ROFL:

Matera the Mad · Nov 2, 2015

I break a rule again, just because --

Must contains first and last name

Quickbooks!!!

The dialog is causing me huge pain and wasted time; I might as well get some revenge out of it.

Matera the Mad · Nov 9, 2015

But alas, there's a solution

Ermehgerrrd

DreamWeaver · Nov 10, 2015

A headline on CNN.com this morning:

Poll: N. J. want's Christie out of race

Those apostrofleas* just keep reproducing. When are they going to make Frontline Plus for news agencies?

*I don't know who here came up with that term, but THANK YOU! :Hail:

Milenio · Nov 10, 2015

In the spirit of the post...

DreamWeaver said:
When are they going to make Frontline Plus for new's agencie's?

*I don't know who here came up with that term, but THANK YOU!

I agree!

Milenio · Nov 19, 2015

A headline on an internet news site:

Holly and Phillip scream with terror when a bread slicer reeks havoc on This Morning

They did fix the headline on the actual article :ROFL:

Maryn · Nov 19, 2015

Boy, I'm glad I'm not the only one who hates the small of havoc.

DreamWeaver · Nov 19, 2015

CNN.com does it again.

"The anticipation for "25" has been growing since 2011 when Adele's last album, "21," won multiple Grammys and selling more than 11 million copies."

Matera the Mad · Nov 26, 2015

I gently pluck't this flower...

you plugged in your phone and viola, you had service

DreamWeaver · Nov 30, 2015

I'd rather Viola had service than read "wa-la!" one more time...

Internet Grammar Hall of Shame

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