Saturday, November 17, 2012

Getting that grammatical point across, with humour...

This is pretty cute...


An example of bad grammar -- and all in one ad (spotted by KA):


 

Going back in time, baby boomers will be familiar with these posters:



What's wrong with that famous tag-line, "Two is enough"? Should it not be "Two are enough"? And all that time, no one pointed out this glaring error. We were too busy complying (Just follow hor/just follow lor).

Able-bodied humans have two feet. So, if you try to do this...


...it's just not possible! This idiom is correctly used in the article heading below:


But grammar sticklers sometimes come up against a wise guy:


But unless you can use such wit to disarm a grammarian, stick with the "good usage" rules, like this one:


Or this one (which I've previously used)...


Finally, just about everyone -- grammarians too, I am sure -- is guilty of using abbreviations and dropping the grammar rules when sending text messages...


Is such a practice acceptable?
i dun know
wat's yr prblm

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