I saw something funny on Facebook. A friend’s friend’s album description is so … wrong. The troublemaker word of the day – spike in the third line, used in the context of “purposely to spike u” (i.e. some actions taken to intentionally make someone irate). I balked when I saw the wrong word spike instead…
This is a video made from one of Stephen Fry’s podcasts on Language. It essentially touches on the topic of Grammar Nazis and how people no longer use language to derive pleasure. Listening to the podcast, I sometimes am guilty of being a Grammar Nazi, at least for the fun of it. Some grammar mistakes…
I am in a bitchy mood today, so I randomly picked a piece of bad grammar off the internet to talk about. In this case, I shall call her stupided. Maybe I shouldn’t be so mean. I mean, it’s got to take some guts and what, forward-looking spirit to add -ed to an adjective, right?…
I was on the bus home yesternight and I saw this poster (I apologize for the flare on Rosie’s face): “A Happy Journey Starts Like That“ Seriously? Shouldn’t it be “like this”? As in, a happy journey starts this way as opposed to that way? I don’t know. Like That sure sounds less acceptable to…
I won’t use this product, not after reading the really odd English on it: “Scientific mechanism that blocks the basic factor which causes the color penetration and dark spots and clarifies the skin to its original white and transparent skin.” Seriously? Color penetration, like penile penetration, perhaps? And what’s with the unnecessary determiner the? And…
A new shop at Far East Plaza. HORRIBLE NAME. What is rondavous anyway? A bad case of rendezvous? KL said maybe they are intentionally misspelling it to tell people the correct pronunciation. Nah-ah. If it’s rondayvoo I can understand. But this is … plain wrong. How am I even supposed to pronounce it, ron-dah-voh-uus? ron-da-vahs…
Saw this sticker on a slice of watermelon at the supermarket, thought it was hilarious. RIPE – FOR GOOD EATING. As opposed to bad eating? And mind you, this was spotted at COLD STORAGE (one of the priciest supermarkets in Singapore) at CLUNY COURT off Bukit Timah, one of the priciest estates in Singapore. On…
