Mein großer Gott, was ist das?

Written By: admin - Oct• 06•10

Sorry, I just felt the need to use an Eszett on the double after seeing this picture.

Q çaûght thís, ãnd İ tøtálly gét why shë wäs ûpsèt!

It’s a free-for-all!

Written By: admin - Sep• 03•10

Kacia wants you all to take a deep breath and not worry.

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I mean, nobody’s getting in trouble for violating parking rules.  Not here.  So, you know, go crazy!

Danger: bored English majors will see this

Written By: admin - Jul• 12•10

Kacia says it all:

This is from a certain Midwestern liberal arts institution that may or may not recently have held a reunion. Where is the punctuation??! Apparently, parking/loading/unloading are the only forbidden  actions– anything else is perfectly fine.

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And knowing which educational institution you mean, Kacia, I’d say that’s a pretty dangerous assertion!

Breaking Friday evening red-penning!

Written By: admin - Jul• 09•10

It’s not that I don’t enjoy a fully-grown modern man invoking a curse against another fully-grown modern man.  I totally do.  It’s just that this letter from Cavaliers Majority Owner Dan Gilbert seems to also contain a little punctuation abuse.

Here’s a screen-cap, for posterity (edited only for layout).  Click to embiggen.

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I was going to red-pen this, but it’s more fun like a puzzle.  How many things annoy YOU, Dear Reader?

Soapbox time!

Written By: admin - Jun• 14•10

Galen says:

This is posted above the fish tank at my school. It replaced a sign that said essentially the same thing, it just didn’t have the interesting punctuation. I will say that this new sign manages to attract my attention every time I go by (but not in a good way).

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So we have the obvious quotation-mark abuse, random capitalization, and one that’s annoying me a lot recently.  I see the “hyphen-preposition” construction a lot on the web, as in “log-on” or “sign-in.”  I understand that one would want to hyphenate if one were modifying a noun, such as “sign-in sheet” or “log-in process.”  But I’m far more likely to see “please log-in now,” which I hate.  And now we see that phenomenon expanding to fish tanks.  What’s next, people??  What’s next?

Sadness.

Written By: admin - Jun• 09•10

Ugh.  For some reason, this one just gets me going on a “state of education” rant.  It could also fit nicely into a “state of public services” rant that I’m saving for another time — okay, no, an abbreviated version: why are people making their own road signs now?  Ahem.  Anyway.

Meg got this one from her cousin.  I admit that I giggle a little on the inside every time I see a “Slow Children Playing” sign, or its cousin, “Slow Children Crossing.”  Perfect example of how a comma could fix everything, that.  But this one comes with an extra giggle.

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There’s also something sweetly whimsical about how these children never, ever play early in the mornings, and are always firmly locked up by 9pm.

Monday mental exercise

Written By: admin - May• 24•10

Reporter #1 wants us all to warm up our brains this fine Monday morning with a little puzzle.

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Symbols that don’t make sense

Written By: admin - May• 14•10

Podcast celeb Sage forwarded this beauty:

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(Click image for DetroitFunk, the original source.)

I’m not even entirely sure what category to put this one into… Thanks, Sage!

Prime error, is what.

Written By: admin - May• 07•10

And a cheerful Friday send-off.  These have been making me giggle for a while.

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Firstly, we have “Prime Rose Oil,” which I just love.  But even better is this:

Why do we need? OMEGA!

I mean, it’s so cheerful you almost can’t fault it for being wrong.

Happy Friday!

Longer than a three-hour tour?

Written By: admin - Feb• 12•10

I totally didn’t write the title of this post.  That credit is due to Nosipho, who found the following and noted

I guess you can check out any time you like, but you can’t return from Shell Island until the spring.

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Score!  A punctuation error and two snazzy pop-culture references in one post!  Thanks, Nosipho!

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