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Originally posted by padillah
Bad grammer drives me bananas
Bad grammer drives me bananas
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Bad spelling is annoying, too.THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTF -
Professors as well
There used to be a kebab/pizza shop that did the same and called themselves 'Las Vagas', sign above the shop and everything. You really would think that they would check that they are spelling things right, just in case...Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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I'd rather think it's your area that's odd if you really don't have much grammatical and spelling errors in ads there.Originally posted by DRoseDARs
Sounds like a problem in your geographic area; I practically never see them.Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- ElokComment
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What? I was talking about the guy that plays Frasier. What did you think I was talking about?Originally posted by LordShiva
Bad spelling is annoying, too.
Tom P.Comment
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Bad capitalisation can be irksome as well, though less so.THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTFComment
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Re: Are you influenced by bad grammar in marketing?
You are an idiot.Originally posted by Winston
The latest example I saw was in the banner ad for Galactic Civilizations II on top of the OT forum page. "Make the Galaxy safe for oppression!", it says.. Well, I think with that, Galactic Civilizations II is perfectly safe from having to ship a copy over to me, no matter how terrific the game might otherwise be. (Not that I would've considered getting it even if they'd have gotten it right, but just as an example.)Comment
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Well, yes. But I'm a happy idiot.
And my point still stands, even if the example by which I chose to illustrate it was slightly er, non-idiotic.Comment
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