…at least, I assume that’s what “Retails” is in this sentence, because I’ve never seen it used quite this way before. As always, a thousand thanks to Sarah.
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Some copyeditor is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day…
…or week. Language Log discussed the John McCain campaign’s four typos in two lines of an email on Friday. And it isn’t just their email. Bear found this one prominently featured on johnmccain.com. Thanks, Bear!
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So Rayanne tipped me off to this gem, saying I know it’s the internet, but seriously, I couldn’t even count all the issues with this one. Run on sentences, misspelled words, double negatives, random quotation marks and apostrophes, oh my! And that’s even putting aside the skeezy factor! She found an ad on Creative Loafing [...]
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Q submitted this to me a while ago, and I’ve been too lazy to boot up my scanner. There’s just so much to love about this one: random capitalization, apostrophe abuse, and the two brilliant eggcorns “World rewound” and “just to name the few.” Rock on, Q!
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I’m going with CIP (that’s “crying in private”). There are a couple things I’d red-pen on this sign if I were asked to do so, including the random insertion of double exclamation points in what is supposed to be a professional advertisement. But double exclamation points and a tilde? Is this some hip new thing [...]
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Not tremendously exciting, but still an intriguing use of random capitals, a debatable hyphen, and one gleefully extraneous comma! Closeup:
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This just in! Minutes later, CNN apparently agrees with Bobby Tables. To an extent. Now I think they need a comma.
Read the rest of this entry »…and today’s creepy antidote.
I know I’m tired on the way home, but I don’t think my fatigue was completely responsible for my finding this ad deeply creepy yesterday. Brought to you by the same people who declare that “its a wrap,” this ad implies a promise of Growth. In fact, it claims that the lovely producers have experienced [...]
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