O RLY?

You could argue all day about whether the Internet and text messaging are conspiring to ruin the English language. However, I think we can all agree that some very interesting language conventions have come out of our tech-savvy world. Here's what a poster on an IMDb message board thinks we can do:

Grammar-based offenses are considered especially heinous.

Almost every episode of Law & Order SVU has the disclaimer that says that the stories are fictional, but this scene from a Season 4 episode chilled me to the bone:

Fictionalized story or not, there really are semi-literate people out there who write barely comprehensible hate mail. And sometimes, they get away with it.

Well are you.

Whaddya, blind? That title needs a question mark!

The lack of a question mark on this poster makes it sound either disinterested or a little accusatory.

My just as good.

I nabbed this "America's Got Talent" screenshot from Hulu. These Kevin Skinner supporters may be enthusiastic, but they're not very grammatical. This sign should read "You're just as good as our chicken dinner."


Shame on them. And shame on me for not posting since July 17th. Guess I've just been too busy reading the amazing "'Blog' of 'Unnecessary' Quotation Marks".

This typo in a Cajun cookbook sounds like it could be the beginning of a bad joke:


"So I went into the bank and asked for a pork loan..."

A date that will live in facsimile.

These may look like two different editions of the Taylor Daily Press, but if you look closely, you'll see that they have something in common:

Apparently, they were printed on the same day!


Either someone forgot to change the date, or every day in Taylor, Texas is exactly the same.

This is the packaging from a small inflatable pool.


While technically this sentence can be correct, I suspect that it's supposed to say "dangerous".