Grammatical Errors In Public

Sophie · 2008-03-30T15:38:09Z

I'm the kind of girl who tends to pick up very quickly on other people's spelling and grammar errors (though perhaps not so quickly on her own). It's becoming quite an obsession, but I have a feeling that as writers many of you are likely to pick up on these things to. Sometimes it quite outrages me that no one seems to have a basic understand of which words should be used in which context and how to use basic punctuation. No one ever seems to know that "its" indicates possession, and "it's" indicates the lack of a space and an "i"... I picked up on about four punctuation errors in the supermarket the other day, when I was only in there for about five minutes. In a second hand furniture store I read a sign that said, "Deliveries in Tuesday's only" Tuesday's only what?? And I recently texted into Kerrang!'s digital radio station to yell at them for saying something about texting "u're" messages to their number. That one really got to me, as they had decided to use text language, fair enough, but had used text language for the wrong your/you're (with an apostrophe) even though the full length version of the correct your/you're had the same number of characters!! Ok, so throw in your own rants about the "world of official business"'s complete disregard for use of proper English!!

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Mon May 19, 2008 1:04 am

JFW1415 says... · Mon May 19, 2008 1:04 am

helpless42 wrote:I once saw a sign that said "eat here and get gas." instead of "eat here, and get gas."

Eh, commas are tricky. Many people will argue that what they had was correct, while others will say that it's not.

And I don't mind errors in books, as long as there aren't many. Really, no one can catch everything. There are thousands and thousands of words in there! And everyone has different views on commas.

Besides, it's fun to find the errors in books. :wink:

But if I found millions, I'd get out a red pen and fix it. :roll:

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Wed May 21, 2008 8:24 pm

Rei says... · Wed May 21, 2008 8:24 pm

There is a restaurant near my house that has a "Help wanted" sign in the window.

It looks like this:

Help Wanted
Apply To Day

Please, sit down before you fall down.
Belloq, "Raiders of the Lost Ark"

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Wed May 21, 2008 8:40 pm

Commando588 says... · Wed May 21, 2008 8:40 pm

Rei wrote:There is a restaurant near my house that has a "Help wanted" sign in the window.

It looks like this:

Help Wanted
Apply To Day

lol

You can only be Lost in one place for so long. After awhile you just call it home.

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Wed May 21, 2008 8:58 pm

Esmé says... · Wed May 21, 2008 8:58 pm

I saw something similar in my city. 'course, it wasn't really in English, but when you translated it from Polish, it would turn out to be something along those lines... It was there, for a few days, and then someone crossed that out with a pen (the whole not was printed, mind you) and made a correction.

And "Europeans" as "europeans". In the newspaper. In an obituary of some politician, to be exact.

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