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By Shit Sandwich | May 25, 2006 - 9:28 am - Posted in General, or uncategorized due to sloppy editing, Grammar
This from the Sky website: “Peters’s Walcott Worry”
Obviously Skysport’s’e’s’ copy-writers are no better grammar-wise than the chavs they serve.
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On a (tangentially) related note, I’ve recently noticed an increasing tendency for mispelling, mispunctuation and misgrammatisation in my own writings - plus the occasional inventionalisation of a word or two a la Bush. Shit, you’ve studied da lingo - why does this happen? Is it age or lack of practice? Is there anything to be done about it or am I destined to go the same way as that Skye Sport’s copy writer?
From the littlest posts the largest replies grow, or something like that.
Anyway, your ongoing theme of punctuation and grammar reminds me of one or two acts of “punctuational graffiti” I’ve often considered:
For example, in train toilets:
“Press knob for water” becomes “Press, knob, for water” which is suddenly rather offensive.
Will report back with other ones as I remember them……
I’ll likewise be on the lookout for punctuational stonkers, but I fear that the morass (great word, emphasises both the “ass” and the “more”) of the British public lack the ingenuity to come up with much in the way of true graffitiacal wit. We’ll have to make do with moustaches on pictures of supermodels on Underground adverts, I fear.
As for your own linguistic indiscretions; I dare’say I make plenty of mistake’s myself, and their proberbly increasing exponentionally as time goe’s by: better just to be a’s pompou’s a’s possible about the whole issue and and pretend people dont’ notice.
Yep, pompous is as pompous does!!
Uh?!
Anyway, on another note, I saw something else today that I thought you could solve for me…..
It was something at the train station that read “Cars parked otherwise than in accordance with British Rail byelaws will be clamped……”
OTHERWISE THAN IN ACCORDANCE WITH ?!
Surely there’s got to be a better way to say this?! I suppose that if you say “Cars NOT PARKED IN ACCORDANCE WITH….etc” you theoretically open the possibility of cars that are not parked being clamped….?!
This wording must have cost a fortune to come up with - no wonder the flippin’ railways are all going to pot…..
By contrast - if you go to the end of Pearman Street, near Lambeth North tube station, you’ll see on the facing wall a home-made sign which probably dates from the 1960s or 1970s. It says simply “No Parking etc.” I’d love to see whether that stood up in a court of law…