Winning and Whining

November 23, 2016 / davethe10r / 0 Comments

Spotted: 11/23/2016
Creator: Unknown

I almost shared this one until I noticed the glaring error. What native speaker of English says, “What’s the different in X and Y?” The answer is “none.” None native English speakers say that.

So here’s one that makes sense:

winning-and-whining-fixed

 

Paid to Protest

November 16, 2016 / davethe10r / 0 Comments

Spotted: 11/15/2016
Creator: Unknown

There isn’t much to say about this except random capitalization is annoying. Also, sentence-ending punctuation isn’t a bad thing—especially when you have two perfectly good sentences to end.

Make America Grammar Again! Use this version instead:

paidtoprotest-fixed

Halloween Candy

November 1, 2016 / davethe10r / 0 Comments

Spotted: 11/1/2016
Creator: Kitchen Fun With [sic] My 3 [sic] Sons

I love SomeEcards. They’re funny and retro and snarky all at the same time. For some reason, the site decided to allow users to create their own cards, and that means that people who are borderline illiterate get to muddy up the SomeEcards brand with poorly executed captions. As Kurt Vonnegut would say: And so it goes.

I don’t have a lot of time today, since it’s the kickoff for NaNoWriMo. So I’ll just make a simple list of problems I see here:

  1. If the numeral 1 of the font you’re using is indistinguishable from an upper-case I or a lower-case l, use superscript for the st or nd or rd. It makes things easier to read.
  2. If you’re creating an appositive like this, where you have a noun phrase followed by a second noun phrase that describes or defines the first, you need some kind of punctuation. I used a colon (which acts kind of like a miniature equals sign) but you could’ve used an em-dash as well.
  3. The Candy belongs to the Kids. An apostrophe here is not optional.
  4. No matter what style guide you prefer, if you’re using word caps (as opposed to sentence caps) you don’t capitalize a two-letter preposition like in.
  5. Double exclamation points are just wrong, wrong, wrong!!!

See what I did there? If you really want to share this meme, share this version instead:

halloween-candy-fixed