...however, this baseball website's top spelling prospect didn't fare nearly as well, since he made a very silly error in the subheader. (This is something that even his spell-checker should have picked up on!)
I was gonna save this one for a Facebook-themed post that I'll be doing in the near-ish future, but you know what? I just couldn't wait. Foodie Friday? No, no, it's Drinky Friday today. And here at Red Pen, Inc., today's special is a lovely concoction of misspelled Guinness, grammatically-challenged vodka, and a splash of snark.
The snarkiness is courtesy of Red Pen, Inc. reader BRIDGETE. The rest of the ingredients come from her friend Christopher. So what do you guys think we should call this crazy drink? I'm thinking "grammartini" sounds pretty appropriate...
Thanks, BRIDGETE, for sending in this hilarious bunch of errors! I hope everyone's Friday is filled with good, strong drinks and lots of snarkiness!
This is the craziest misspelling I've seen all week. MarieC, who found this one, says, I don't know what a "homocide" is, but it doesn't sound good!
I agree. It sounds, perhaps, like something that's very un-PC... Yikes! (For the record, I am against "homocide," but on days when I'm especially agitated, I might advocate misspellercide.)
Thanks to MarieC for spotting this one. (And don't forget to visit MarieC's blog--she offers a lot of great tips for getting the most value for your money in this crazy economy!)
So after last week's Hump Day Grammar post, MAMA GRAMMARPHILE had a special request. She'd noticed that a lot of recent Hump Day Grammar posts were about anal sex. (Which wasn't on purpose, of course--it just kinda happened that way.) So her request was that for the next Hump Day Grammar post--which is today's post--the topic wouldn't be anal sex. Done! (See what a good daughter I am? Mom, aren't you proud? LOL.)
So today we're gonna talk about what happens when you cross an erection with a secretion. You get...drum roll, please...a "secrection"!
But even funnier than a "secrection" is the second half of this Yahoo's question, dealing with becoming "dead afterward." It looks like--from the brief explanation below the question--that she's referring to her husband going limp, but from the "become dead afterward" phrasing, it really sounds like she's banging a vampire who, like, bangs her and then crawls in his little hole to be dead for a while before waking up again at nightfall. (And after reading that sentence, you're thinking, "Has somebody been watching too much True Blood lately?", and I admit--guilty as charged.)
In honor of the Phillies' 22-1 win against the Reds last night (which came on the heels of the Phillies sweeping the Mets this past weekend), today's post is a baseball-themed post that doesn't contain any Phillies-related errors. I'll poke fun at bad grammar relating to other teams, for once (not that I ever aim to make fun of Phillies-related bad grammar, but since I read so many Phillies-related things, it just sorta happens that way, you know?).
I was catching up on some Cubs news the other day. The good news was that I discovered that this Micah Hoffpauir dude is pretty cute. The bad news is, whoever wrote this blurb doesn't know how to spell "launched."
Also, what are these things called "strikouts"? I know that, for instance, Cole Hamels had a lot of strikeouts tonight against the Reds (which is reason #1,973,264 why Cole Hamels rocks). But this Nolasco guy on the Marlins only gets strikouts. What gives?
I'm hoping that the Phillies still have some runs left in 'em for the rest of this week and that they didn't blow their run load Monday night. With Florida sneaking up behind the Phillies, they've gotta keep those wins coming in order to stay in first place in the NL East. Let's go, Fightin' Phils!
DANNY C. spotted this error in an MSN article about Sarah Palin's resignation. Danny says: It seems they have not yet learned about spell check. Perhaps they have been embroiled in their own "fued" with Fox News. Ha!
So there's this restaurant, Johnny Rockets, that I pass on my way to and from movie screenings, which I occasionally attend as part of my job. In my head, I've started calling its employees "the Johnny Rockets Scientists"--sarcastically, of course--for the reasons I'm about to point out. (This place frequently has screwily-written signs in the window, but often I'm in too much of a rush to snap a picture. This time, however, I made the time.)
The first thing I noticed was the spelling error, and I got a good chuckle out of that. But then I saw the phrase "outside patio seating," and I knew that the Department of Redundancy Department must have helped with writing this sign. I mean, really--where the hell else would you put a patio besides outside? Are there indoor patios that I'm not aware of? And do you have to pay for this extra special "outside patio seating"? There's a dollar sign to the left of it...
Happy Friday, everyone. I hope the weather stays nice enough this weekend for you to enjoy a burger on one of those new-fangled outdoor patios... ;)
There's a minor error in this article (it's beekeeper, not bee keeper), but that's nothing compared to the ridiculousness that came outta the mouth of Tom Garfinkel. This article quotes him as saying the following: "If they decide to swarm on a person, whether that's a person, an employer or a fan, we could have a real situation."
Well, see, we do have a real situation. The situation is that the person who said the above sentence was clearly trying to rival Dubya's linguistic magic. Is that second "person" supposed to be "player" instead of "person"? And is that "employer" supposed to be "employee"? In both cases, I bet so... But since that's not what he actually said, I suppose we'll never know.
Also, if he really did mean to say "person" twice, then, in that context, is he implying that employers and/or fans are not people? If they are not people, then who actually qualifies as being a person?
I kinda wish one of those bees would've stung this dude. Can you sting some sense into somebody? It's worth a try...
This one came from KEITH. KEITH learned via Facebook that a friend of one of his friends thinks Tokyo is in China. Heh.
I'm just glad this person isn't my friend. And I'm glad that someone called out the friend of KEITH's friend about her geography knowledge...or lack thereof. Brilliant!
The Grammarphile is a former on-air personality who realized all too quickly that good grammar and radio don't really mix. She now lives in the Long Island area of New York and works for a major New York publication. In what little free time she has, she enjoys giggling at instances of crappy writing, being the reigning queen of Boggle, and working on her novel. She's a slave to fashion, would sell her soul to see Muse in concert, and crushes on entirely too many baseball players. The Grammarphile is too snarky for her own damn good, delightfully eccentric, and just a teensy bit evil. You've been warned.
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