Bad Grammar!

I brought home a new stick of deodorant last week, and I found this sticker affixed to the cap:


What the heck is this? Some kind of subversive marketing campaign?
What it looks like is an insult.
This sticker says I use Mitchum deodorant beacuse I'm a fat, lazy slob.

I do not use Mitchum deodorant because I am a fat, lazy slob.
I use Mitchum deodorant because I occasionally smell like one.

Apart from being baffling and offensive,
the statement is simply bad grammar.
You may consider mowing the lawn to be cardio,
but you don't consider something "as".

I was driving down Highway 101 here in Los Angeles, (or as we call it, "the 101")
and they have these big message boards that alert drivers to traffic conditions, accidents or whatever.
So I'm driving along and I see the sign, and it says:
Don't Drink and Drive - It Saves Lives

Do you realize that this actually says "Drinking And Driving Saves Lives???"
What it should say is "Save Lives - Don't Drink and Drive."

A week later, I noticed they changed the sign to "Don't Drink and Drive - Save Lives."

The straw that broke, well, my back was on my beloved Lost.
Two of the characters are Korean, and their flashback scenes are entirely in Korean, with subtitles.

During this particular scene, the subtitles should say "Your husband..."



And there it was, my number one pet peeve, on national televison, for the entire country to see.
This actually means "You Are Husband."

This is totally unacceptable!
Is nobody checking this crap?
It's as if all the dumb people you laughed at in high school have taken over the world!
These examples aren't from someone's blog or from a website -
I've probably made six typos and several grammar mistakes in this rant alone,
but it doesn't matter! I'm just a guy with a website!
(And I type fast when I'm angry)
I'm not an ad copy writer or the subtitler for ABC Television.
And I'm certainly not in charge of posting electronic highway billboards that millions of people see each day.

There should be consequences!
Consequences and repercussions!

Where is my giant red Sharpie when I need it?

whatsz rong wif mi grammr?I think its perfectlee phine our u listeening to mieee????

Hey, that are not funny!

Uncle Jed! jeroboam's makin' fun o' mah vocabbylary agin!

How old is the expression 'the sh*t'? It wasn't so long ago that 'the sh*ts' was still used to mean 'bad'.

I saw the word "feud" misspelled as "fued" on the CNN bottom ticker.  I catch mistakes on there constantly. 

FaithSF wrote: Stuart Woods, whose books I loved until he started just cranking them out, has a page at the end of his books, with a snarky message, like, "If you find a typo, and you really feel you must do something about it, contact my editor." That alone makes me not like him anymore.

Thor wrote: FaithSF wrote: Stuart Woods, whose books I loved until he started just cranking them out, has a page at the end of his books, with a snarky message, like, "If you find a typo, and you really feel you must do something about it, contact my editor." That alone makes me not like him anymore.   Seems like a writer should have the very basics mastered.  I'd be pissed if a typo was such that it made it appear that I really did think "too" was the same as "to".   Maybe this guy Woods is of the school that says that content is the only thing that matters.  Rules are for followers, man...not maverick artists like me!  That idea had a little impetus maybe 10 or 15 years ago, when teachers were saying that what's important is that the kid writes, not how he writes.  They were operating under the assumption that the desire to write is most important, and that the other stuff (spelling, grammar, etc.) would automatically follow.    To me, that sounds like a prescription for mediocre writing, and mediocre spelling/grammar.

No, actuallyl, he's a pretty good writer--or he used to be, before he started phoning it in.  But he's an arrogant ass.

Hagar wrote: Another thing I've noticed a lot of lately is dropping the "g" in a lot of words like "Somethin' ", "Nothin' ", and many others. It sure makes me wonder if colleges and universities still have an English Department.

Willie Brown, our former mayor and state assembly speaker, is from Texas.  Although he's been out of there for many, many years, he still drops the "g."  But what gets me more than the dropping of the g that you are talking about is when the g is dropped, but instead of saying "in," as in, "droppin' the g,"  is "droppeen the g."  I'm suddenly noticing just how many people do this, but I find it especially ANNOYEEEEEEEN when it's done by newscasters and on commercials.  The commercial for Advil PM's voiceover says something like, "Are you tired of those annoyeen nights of not sleepeen?"

When did this become okay?

Thor wrote: Another trend that bugs me is the substitution of "sh: for "s" in certain words.  Shtreet, shtrong, etc.

Yes.  There's a new voiceover "artist" who does this.  She's on the commercials for Nice 'N Easy hair color, and something else.  She reminds me of this 1970s actress named Debra Lee Scott.  Annoying as all get-out.

Thor wrote: And then there's what seems to me to be one of self-importance.  That is, putting the "h" sound where none exists.  Instead of water or daughter, it's wat-her or daught-her.

Carolyn Johnson, on SF's Channel 7, does this.  It's the only thing about her that I don't like. 

committed by Jimbo


BARACK OBAMA FOR PRESDIENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and by a popular video game

http://www.allyourbasearebelongtous.com/allyourbase.jpg

woah and especially um......er...uh...the whores...which I guess are females...so they umm..don't have "special sticks" to "jack off" too.

WELL unless they're transsexuals?????uh err...um...maybe not.