"Teabonics" is an awesome Flickr set of misspelled signs from angry white people at Tea Party rallies.
Check it out and post your favorites in the comments!
And guess what? According to The New York Times, most of the people going to these rallies are people on the dole who are sucking down welfare and other benefits even as they protest the national debt and the economic stimulus package that prevented the entire economy from going upside down pancake. Nice!
Do you think some of these folks could get a job if their resume didn't have so many typos?
Just a thought ....
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ROFL thank you for the nice lunch laugh.
ReplyDeletehooowahahaha. I like "borror is the slave to the lender" and "Taxed enown already" which is wrong yet sort of right - "enow" is an archaic word for enough. The NY Times never has anything nice to say about the teabag movement - don't they have *any* redeeming qualities at all?
ReplyDeleteProtesters on the dole is nothing new, plenty of protesters - whatever their political argument may be - are on the dole. (Or retired, on disability, etc.) They have time on their hands while the rest of us are at work. Organized protests where they hire people to carry pre-printed signs are mostly un-employed or under-employed people. I see a lot of that here in California - lots of indignant movements here.
Same with mis-spelled signs. You get lots of pople together who make their own signs instead of using pre-printed signs and the bad spellers jump out. I'm in a liberal stronghold of coastal California - you should have seen some of the stupid signs when students were protesting the Iraq war. I'm no fan of the Iraq war, but their idiotic sloganeering was sending me to the other side.
The real problem is that no side is immune from knee jerk slogans and lack of clear thinking.
It's only a typo if you actually know how it's supposed to be spelled.
ReplyDeleteWell I got about half-way through and just got depressed that there are so many illiterates in our country. You don't know whether to laugh or cry.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite of the ones I did read was, "Thank You Fox News For Keeping Us Infromed." Yes, Fox News the beacon of truth, justice and the American way.
Apparently our educational system needs a drastic overhaul.
Of course, you see this all over the internet. I have read poor spelling for so long, I even have to stop and think how I am spelling something now. I used to pride myself on my spelling prowess. You get so used to seeing postings with atrocious spelling. "I loosed my dog and don't know weather to call the police or will he comme home."
Chasing typos in a piece takes me longer than writing it.
ReplyDeleteBut most of them are genuine typos, not true illiteracy.
On the right side of this blog, towards the bottom, I have put in a kind of permanent apologia for my stuttering typing:
"Typos and other imperfections are signs that this is a handmade product made by one person with a real job, two kids, three dogs, a big yard, and limited time. It is natural for variations and imperfections in spelling, wording, color, and picture placement to occur, and these should be considered part of the essential character of this blog."
My attempt to turn a defect into a feature ;)
Patrick
Our local newspaper has a forum for input and the stuff written by high school students is very depressing to read. Bad grammar and spelling, too many CAPS, "Writing In Rap Style", etc. And craigslist postings! If you want to sell something, why not do ithe product justice by using good grammar?
ReplyDeleteThe classic case of turning a defect into a feature is the tale of hand-knotting rugs. I'm told that the artists will intentionally make an error to represent that only God is perfect. I think of that often, but especially when I see a typo or grammatical error in my writing.
ReplyDeleteSeahorse, way imperfect ;)
My favorite is the standard for the Border Terrier which says any part of the face damaged by honorable work is supposed to be deemed to be perfect. If that were true, my old boy Trooper would have won Westminster ;)
ReplyDeleteP
I took an English class at the community college I attend. It was the only writing course "they" did not give me credit for, despite my undergrad BA handed to me earlier that year. The class was 101, basic writing, Mickey-Mouse stuff that I really shoudn't have needed to take, but I did anyway.
ReplyDeleteI got more out of the class by helping others with their abysmal papers than I did writing my own, if that says anything. The highlight came when one of my drafts was handed back to me with "Use your own words" written next to various paragraphs. Apparently my command of the English language was a bit above and beyond what this particular professor was used to seeing in 101.
Between this experience, the facepalm that is YouTube, chat-speak, texting, and general forum populations, I have pretty much given up the Grammar Nazi ghost. If others see me as snooty and highfalutin because I type everything out and write in a somewhat intelligent manner, then that's their problem.
With that said, I'm far from perfect too! Those signs almost give me the RIGHT to laugh though. Can't help those who don't help themselves, etc etc.
Good on Trooper for having "honorable" damage! But, are we to believe that any dogs destined for the ring are ever in the field???
ReplyDeleteSeahorse
Not border terrierss, that's for sure. Or "Parson" Russells.
ReplyDeleteP
A "Parson" Russell Terrier would have to find a sixty inch culvert pipe to "go to ground".
ReplyDeleteSeahorse, facepalming just for Viatecio ;)