Monday, 16 June 2008
'Do you want salt and crazy grammar on the chips?'
I can't fault their heavenly chips or their wonderfully crisp battered cod, but what possessed them here? As if this scatterbrain punctuation wasn't enough, when I then slumped against the counter to recover my breath I was faced with this on the menu board:
The spelling. Why not just copy the word 'sausage' from the entry above? And yes, those really are "unnecessary quotation marks" encompassing the word 'batterd'. Perhaps my chipmonger was batterd on booze when he did it. It's the only rational explanation.
Labels: commas, quotation marks, spelling
posted by Paddy at 9:50 pm
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Tuesday, 11 December 2007
Can this paragraph be saved?
NPR writer Laura Conaway wants to know if the following paragraph, from the New York Times, can be rescued.
Yet deep down in his soul, the transplant will hold on to the notion that umbrellas are to be used only as protection against the rain, which is wet and, when it drenches the clothes and skin, makes one uncomfortable.
What do you think, gang? I'll give you all a day to offer your suggestions in the comments section, then I'll have a bash. Although to perfectly honest I don't really know where to start.
Thanks to our twitter friend, Evolution London (a.k.a. Aliya), for the link.
Labels: commas, grammar, newspapers, twitter
posted by Gez at 10:23 pm
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Friday, 7 December 2007
I'll have a 'P' please, Bob
From passive aggressive notes (again).
Wrongly placed comma, bad verb choice and a fantastic example of choosing the wrong word at the wrong time.
P.S. Yes, I know that last sentence is fragmented. I'm not sorry.
Labels: commas, photos, verb choice, wrong word
posted by Gez at 8:49 am
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