Grammar Police celebrate one year!
Redundant. Just say “recorded.” If not previously, when was it recorded?
Also redundant. If you prevent something, you prevent it before it happens. That’s the only time you can prevent it.
Why do person’s alway's make the same error’s, goof’s and mistake’s, especially in ad’s? It make’s us guy’s want to scratch our head’s. One more time: NO APOSTROPHE!
This came up when the same thing happened to former President Trump. By definition, a suspension is temporary. Say Twitter “shut down” or “closed” the account.
Forget for a moment whether the statement is true. Get rid of those comma splices! Also extraneous capitalizations. We’ll allow the partial sentences because this is an ad. So: “No one has died from medical marijuana. Zero. Not a single one.”
Amazing how a little punctuation changes everything. You are saying I respect my neighbors? How do you know?
The "Horribly Wrong" team originally was not going to post this one, since it might just have been a slip by a harried and overworked graphics operator on live TV. And this is a case where the misspelled word is itself a word, so any spell-check program would have missed it. However, we'd be curious to know if this person really thought this was how you spelled "rogue," rather than what was typed, which is a shade of red and a form of makeup. Also, we'd be curious to know if the error was fixed for subsequent broadcasts.
Scott Simmons
Misspelling “condominiums” is bad enough. What about no space between “and” and “local?” And “Residential communities” is redundant. Boy, these guys should get a refund from the lettering company! As with the “rouge” planet, we’d be inclined to give them a break, except we wonder how long the window has looked like this?
And we go the video archives for Segment 9: Bad TV.
From the mailbag: Sharon Abramson, a former Palm Beach Post colleague of both members of the “Horribly Wrong” team, drew our attention to our Dec. 12 segment, in which we pointed out an incorrect caption mentioning “a bouquet of flower” instead of “a bouquet of flowers.” Sharon rightly noted that “bouquet of flowers” is redundant anyway!
Readers: "Something Went Horribly Wrong," features samples of bad writing we see nearly every day. You can participate! Be our duly deputized “grammar police:” Your motto: “To protect and correct.” Send in your photos of store signs, street signs, newspaper headlines, tweets, and so on. It doesn’t have to be a grammatical error. It can be just what we call “cowardly writing.” Include your name and home town so we properly can credit you. You're free to add a comment, although we reserve the right to edit or omit. Now get out there! Send to Eliot@eliotkleinberg.com
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