Grammar FAIL
Do you see this?
Let me zoom in a little.
Thank you so much, Hollywood, for not even freaking PROOFREADING YOUR OPENING TITLES. Basic grammar, people. It’s just not that difficult. “It’s” = it is. “Its” = belonging to it.
Gah.
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April 22nd, 2009 at 9:23 am
I just saw on a “The Bus” sign this morning– “Driver’s cannot make change.” The driver’s WHAT cannot make change?? The driver’s brain? The driver’s hands? Don’t use a possessive!!!!
April 22nd, 2009 at 12:49 pm
I always pause with its and it’s. For a good laugh check out the Blog of Unnecessary Quotation Marks. Its hilarious.
(Hahahahahahah! I couldn’t help myself!)
April 22nd, 2009 at 12:56 pm
I just hate those! I don’t understand why people don’t just do the easiest thing – skip it entirely? It’s much easier to not add punctuation than add it when it doesn’t need to be there! And the quote thing is really really dumb too.
April 22nd, 2009 at 1:09 pm
What show or movie was this?
April 22nd, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Ah, yes. Reminds me of the softball facility in Panama City. Don’t remember? http://hpwt.blogspot.com/2008/03/apostrophes-r-us.html
April 22nd, 2009 at 7:33 pm
FPS. Nothing jerks a knot in my knickers more than bad punctuation. (So sez the queen of the ellipsis…)
April 26th, 2009 at 7:17 am
I learned that one in first grade. I was trying to correct what the teacher had written on the chalkboard and telling her that she forgot the apostrophe in the possessive form of its, thinking I was all badass and that she was surely going to tell me, in front of my peers, that I was smarter than she was.
No, she told me why I was wrong, and made me feel like a total jackass (which I deserved) and I never forgot it. Humbling lessons like that tend to stay with ya.
May 8th, 2009 at 10:45 am
That stuff just drives me nuts! (Or should I say nut’s?)
My favorite was last summer when I was at Walmart. I was there to pick up a box fan and, there on the shelves, were several signs that said, “More box’s in the back”. Apparently, you don’t need to know much to work at Wallyworld…