Today’s Typos
So, I’ve been listening to a hellava lot of Grammar Girl podcasts lately. I just can’t get enough of her quick & dirty tips for how to annoy one’s friends by correcting their grammar1. I’ve learned when to use “sit” versus “set”, when to use “lay” versus “lie,” and even that it’s OK to end a sentence with a preposition (sometimes)!
And now, in a lovely twist of coincidence4, I’ve come across two typos:
First up is this little card that came with a bookmark that my friend Jenny sent me from Korea as a Christmas present. Who knew that kites were sued? At least this one has the excuse that it’s from Korea, so the person who wrote it probably doesn’t have English as their first language and so can be excused for missing a typo.
This one I noticed while getting coffee the other day. I picked up a pack of Sugar Twin and was surprised that this packet sweetens like 1 teaspoons of sugar. That’s right, 1 teaspoons, plural. Awesome.
1My ex had this friend who would always try to correct people’s grammar and/or facts by saying the word “actually” really loudly at the start of a sentence… as in “ACTUALLY, the sun DOES revolve around the Earth”2. It got to the point that we verbified3 the word “actually,” as in “Uh oh, you just got actuallied!” or “Now he’s actuallying the Royal Shakespeare Society on a fact about Shakespeare.” Sometimes I wonder if I’m that annoying.
2Yeah, he was often wrong when he corrected people, which made it extra funny.
3And we know how Grammar Girl feels about verbification.
4I don’t believe in fate.
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Have you listened to any of the recent Savage Love podcasts (er, they’re obviously R-rated). A few weeks ago Dan discovered a new and apparently legitimate fetish: grammar. The caller became aroused when bad grammar, and wanted her love to say sentences with bad grammar during sex.
Then subsequently there was a call from a woman who got turned on by long and complicated words, like, I don’t know, sesquipidilian.
It’s something you should consider listening to.
Heh.
It’s a good thing you never make any typos, eh? 😉
@Darren I heard the one about the grammar fetish, but I had a hard time believing that the caller wasn’t just making that up. I try not to judge, to each their own and all that, but I mean, really? Turned on by grammar? Haven’t heard the one about the long word yet, but again, can’t say I understand that really… but then again, I like it when guys talk nerdy…
@Jorge – Of course I make typos (in my second to last draft of my thesis, I had one reference listed as being published in the year 1000!), but I fully expect that people will make fun of me for it!
OMFG! Grammar Girl DMed me on Twitter!
@todmaffin – OMG! Colour me jealous!! I want a DM from GG!!