Hi all! Here is this week’s mini-roundup of gaffes as collected by your servant, the ever-humble Grammar Cop Extraordinaire.
Humour
Why you shouldn’t choose a book publisher via Craigslist
Feast your eyes, people!
Friday Follies #23 – 4 mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”!
This week the Grammar Cop spent some time pondering why it is that ethnic-type restaurants refuse to hire proofreaders for their menus.
Friday Follies #22 – 3 mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”!
Okay! The Grammar Cop is back from her holidays and has nailed three spelling infractions. Here they are for your reading pleasure!
P.S. – Re my book
Hi again! I forgot to mention, when I told you I started writing a book, what it’s called and what it’s about! The title is:
Our Driver Has No Car: Tales From the Trenches of Hollywood North
It is about the decade I spent (during the 90s) working as a script coordinator on films and TV shows.
Should be a fun read (if I do say so myself)!
Stay tuned!
Friday Follies #21 – 10 New Year’s Resolutions for the Grammatically Challenged
First of all, to everyone:
HAPPY NEW YEAR – MAY IT BE SWEET, SMART AND SAFE!
(and free of alliterative bloggers!)
And now…
10 Resolutions for the Grammatically Challenged
Spelling, back in the day
I was always a pretty good speller. I would see the word once, in my school book or a library book, and somehow it was burned in my memory.
Friday Follies #20 – a bunch of mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”!
Further to my December 21st post on dating for the age-impaired, I thought I would point out some of the little gaffes that abound in the profiles I’ve been scanning lately. (Hope springs eternal!) These are direct quotes, copied and pasted – followed of course by my snarky comments in brackets.
Dating 2.0…
(or: Looking for Love in all the Wrong Singles Groups Companion Ads Online Dating Sites)
“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.”
– François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
Dating. After my marriage ended, this was a whole new concept to me, having been with only one person since the age of 17 until we split when I was 30. I spent a year or two mourning the loss of a partner, and then, in 1977, BANG! I was ready-set-go to find a new one.
Friday Follies #19 – Four mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”!
The Grammar Cop is always alert to catch a variety of flubs – all things language-related, including misspellings, grammatical bloopers, homonym confusion and the like. I do not, however, bother with typos. All of us are guilty of those from time to time. Here’s a sampling of egregious errors from this week.
Crossed Eyes and Dotted Tees 