I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar: A Collection of Egregious Errors, Disconcerting Bloopers, and Other Linguistic Slip-Ups
Correct grammar and proper spelling can be a challenge, and their absence can be a source of gleeful humor to everyone but the victim of a bad grammar attack. How do you react to sandwich boards, road signs, laminated instructions, and other written missives that are just not exactly what their...
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Correct grammar and proper spelling can be a challenge, and their absence can be a source of gleeful humor to everyone but the victim of a bad grammar attack. How do you react to sandwich boards, road signs, laminated instructions, and other written missives that are just not exactly what their creator meant? If you’ve ever (gently) judged anyone else for their linguistic failures, if you find yourself guffawing about the frequent confusion between “incontinence” and “inconvenience,” if you’ve ever been tempted to whip out your marker to add in or cross out apostrophes, and if you've refused to answer e-mails in which “your” and “you’re” are used interchangeably, this book is for you. With pictures culled from the Facebook group by the same name, I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar is a hilarious and eye-opening tour through restaurants and shops, through parking lots and along winding roads, and around the world.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312533014 (0312533012)
ASIN: 312533012
Publish date: September 29th 2009
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
So, here's the thing: this is a cute, funny compilation of pictorial examples of bad grammar from around the world. I laughed out loud out more than a few of them. But I found a grammar error in one of the photo captions. On page 96 ("Exhibits like sightseeing as much everyone else."). Oops.
Just what I needed: something short, that didn't take too much brain power, that made me laugh out loud. Funny, but as I mention, inconsistent. Some photographs are laugh-out-loud funny and others I just kind of shrugged over. There are also captions, scathingly telling you what went wrong ...
So funny, and also annoying.
Just a collection of signs with atrocious grammar.