I love Flickr. Really, I do. But it pains me every time I log on and see the grammatically incorrect greeting, which just a second ago was “Bangawoyo StJenna!” (“Hello Jenna” in Korean.) Yes, I cringed just writing that. Where is the personal comma? I shudder to think that the homepage of a major website [...]
Does anyone out there truly understand how to use quotation marks? (If you’re unsure, check out the Gallery of Misused Quotation Marks for some enlightenment.) Here’s a quick recap for some of the more common — proper — uses: As the title of a minor work (this can be stylistic rather than grammatical, depending on [...]
I want to know how much Chinese translators get. Seriously, I need a translator to translate this gobbledygook:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6054726.stm Although “Blood-Condensed Friendship Pavilion” is probably quite accurate. Of course, “Engrish” translations are much more widely known, or at least more widely ridiculed. Makes me want to run out and buy some “Angel Sweet Asse.” I myself [...]
Spotted in Seattle’s Pike Place Market:If you can’t spell the product you’re selling, I ain’t buying it.
On my old website, circa 1999, I had a section dedicated to grammar mistakes I found in everyday locales. My favorite was a sign on the Third Street Promenade, from when Santa Monica’s glorified strip-mall and environs were undergoing a rehabilitation that consisted of tearing down old-growth trees and replacing them with saplings destined never [...]
I’ll be the first to admit that what I’m about to bitch about is relatively minor — compared to so many other world events, at least. Even though it all boils down to perhaps 15 pixels, I’m adamant that the Web — albeit a fantabulous conduit for information and ideas — is destroying our literacy. [...]
