Author Topic: Spelling that makes you cringe (Read 176562 times)

Kim · « **Reply #475 on:** 23 January, 2016, 03:48:44 pm »

Quote from: hellymedic on 23 January, 2016, 01:59:55 pm

Just come up on my Facebook feed.
I think there are at least four English usage errors in one tat!
AAARGH!

Surely that's the point? Getting a conspicuous tattoo full of spelling errors being a prime illustration of past decisions affecting your life today.

Plus there's a Wally. And it stinks of Photshop.

Jurek · « **Reply #476 on:** 23 January, 2016, 04:01:16 pm »

Was the typo in Photoshop intentional?
Class, if so

hellymedic · « **Reply #477 on:** 23 January, 2016, 04:34:30 pm »

Actually, if I were a printer, I'd be none too impressed with the spacing, kerning and letter proportions either!

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #478 on:** 24 January, 2016, 10:55:10 am »

I reckon you can count seven errors there if you consider the spelling, punctuation and grammar of "you're" as separate errors. And eight if you include the tattoo itself. Higher bids now being taken.

jsabine · « **Reply #479 on:** 24 January, 2016, 01:21:37 pm »

I reckon four is fair: as both the commas are about needlessly subordinating the middle three words, I'm happy to count them both as one error, while triple-counting "you're" is simply gilding the lily.

T42 · « **Reply #480 on:** 24 January, 2016, 01:37:07 pm »

Then there's the sentiment, but that's not a spelling error.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #481 on:** 24 January, 2016, 08:03:02 pm »

Quote from: jsabine on 24 January, 2016, 01:21:37 pm

I reckon four is fair: as both the commas are about needlessly subordinating the middle three words, I'm happy to count them both as one error, while triple-counting "you're" is simply gilding the lily.

I'd agree if it was, say, a piece of schoolwork to be marked, but on an internet forum notably prone to pedantry for pedantry's sake, it seemed silly to be restrained!

Jurek · « **Reply #482 on:** 26 January, 2016, 03:23:10 pm »

Also, services unavailable between Cuffley and Theydon Bois

Tim Hall · « **Reply #483 on:** 26 January, 2016, 04:04:27 pm »

Quote from: jsabine on 23 January, 2016, 11:48:57 am

Indeed, there's no 'L' in Chai.

I went to a Thee Pubbe in Dover which had a sign outside proudly proclaiming "There's no 'F' i n lager".

Gareth Rees · « **Reply #484 on:** 26 January, 2016, 04:27:06 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 23 January, 2016, 09:14:45 am

I am cringingly wondering if a "chail latté" is really a thing

If it is, it's due to junctural metanalysis, like "adder" and "newt".

clarion · « **Reply #485 on:** 26 January, 2016, 04:47:15 pm »

Quote from: Gareth Rees on 26 January, 2016, 04:27:06 pm

Quote from: Wowbagger on 23 January, 2016, 09:14:45 am
I am cringingly wondering if a "chail latté" is really a thing

If it is, it's due to junctural metanalysis, like "adder" and "newt".

Wow. Thanks, that's really enlightening. And it has (in a round about way) answered something which has mildly puzzled me for years: Why is an apple pie bed so called? Obvious now.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #486 on:** 26 January, 2016, 11:31:47 pm »

Perhaps in the case of chail latte we're seeing a "visual junctural metanalysis" caused by the similarity in appearance of i and l, rather than a phoneme from one word becoming joined to the other. Though I expect it's just a spelling mistake.

hellymedic · « **Reply #487 on:** 01 February, 2016, 03:42:22 pm »

Draconian parking penalty:
<<He said: "Three strikes and they're holed before the magistrates. And I think this behaviour will stop.">>
From http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-35460348

hellymedic · « **Reply #488 on:** 07 February, 2016, 01:32:30 pm »

Yacfers are not the only pedants...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-35516158

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #489 on:** 07 February, 2016, 01:41:31 pm »

Quite, it should have read "Born Awsum".

T42 · « **Reply #490 on:** 07 February, 2016, 02:54:03 pm »

At least they'll grow up with a grounding in Chinese operating instructions.

hellymedic · « **Reply #491 on:** 08 February, 2016, 02:34:48 pm »

Millimole retweeted this...

T42 · « **Reply #492 on:** 08 February, 2016, 02:48:02 pm »

Bledlow · « **Reply #493 on:** 08 February, 2016, 11:17:18 pm »

This exorcising of dogs - does it work? And what about exorcising of other creatures, such as rats?

T42 · « **Reply #494 on:** 09 February, 2016, 08:01:42 am »

I suppose dog-collars are no protection.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #495 on:** 09 February, 2016, 09:48:15 am »

Quote from: T42 on 09 February, 2016, 08:01:42 am

I suppose dog-collars are no protection.

hellymedic · « **Reply #496 on:** 10 February, 2016, 02:47:53 pm »

From Twitter by LMNH...

Kim · « **Reply #497 on:** 10 February, 2016, 03:00:18 pm »

I suspect that's more "hearing that makes you cringe". No doubt a telephone was involved.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #498 on:** 17 February, 2016, 06:31:10 pm »

No, Quest TV, those objects that have a wheel at each end and a 750 bhp Volvo in the middle are emphatically not "axels"

Guy · « **Reply #499 on:** 03 March, 2016, 10:24:57 am »

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