I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar: A Collection of Egregious Errors, Disconcerting Bloopers, and Other Linguistic Slip-Ups
A hilarious and eye-opening tour of unforgettable typos, misspellings, and more with pictures culled from the Facebook group by the same name.
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.
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I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar: A Collection of Egregious Errors, Disconcerting Bloopers, and Other Linguistic Slip-Ups
A hilarious and eye-opening tour of unforgettable typos, misspellings, and more with pictures culled from the Facebook group by the same name.
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.
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I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar: A Collection of Egregious Errors, Disconcerting Bloopers, and Other Linguistic Slip-Ups

I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar: A Collection of Egregious Errors, Disconcerting Bloopers, and Other Linguistic Slip-Ups

by Sharon Eliza Nichols
I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar: A Collection of Egregious Errors, Disconcerting Bloopers, and Other Linguistic Slip-Ups
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I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar: A Collection of Egregious Errors, Disconcerting Bloopers, and Other Linguistic Slip-Ups

by Sharon Eliza Nichols

Overview

A hilarious and eye-opening tour of unforgettable typos, misspellings, and more with pictures culled from the Facebook group by the same name.
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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781429991667
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 03/18/2014
Sold by: OPEN ROAD INTEGRATED - EBKS
Format: eBook
Pages: 160
File size: 27 MB
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About the Author

Sharon Eliza Nichols created the Facebook group I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar, which boasts more than 350,000 members and 7,000 photos of misspelled and ungrammatical signs. Sharon has been featured in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and lives in Tuscaloosa, where she is a law student at the University of Alabama.

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I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar

By Sharon Eliza Nichols

St. Martin's Press

Copyright © 2009 Sharon Eliza Nichols
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4299-9166-7

CHAPTER 1

FOOD AND DRINK


It's the Southern take on the French Bistro.

But evidently alcohol was allowed while creating the sign.

Yum, bowels and camels early in the morning!

It plugs up the sink and wastes precious coffee grinds.

Apparently, this is a common mistake.

The plural of knife is knives.

Is the fish Chip's or are the chips Chip's?

We're here, we want the early dinner special, get used to it. And don't leave off the pickles!

Their hot what?

I need my apostrophe eraser. And my Z flipper.

Tea isn't coffee, right?

So close to what you meant, but now I really want to see the writer of this sign curtsey while fixing it.

Pick a spelling, any spelling.

Opposite: I shouldn't have to contemplate apostrophes while waiting for my arteries to harden.


(Continues...)
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Table of Contents

Contents

Preface,
Acknowledgments,
1. Food and Drink,
2. Shopping Signage,
3. Fashion Statements,
4. Parking, Driving, Cars, and Travel,
5. Newspapers and Books,
6. Edumacation,
7. Lost in Translation,
8. Say What?,
9. Apostrophe Catastrophe,
10. Miscellaneous,
Photo Credits,

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