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Giant leap
Well, holy crap, the AP Stylebook apparently just jumped all the way from "Web site" to "website" in one tweet. I'll be jiggered. -
By these signs shall you know them...
via cranky_editors
These are signs seen primarily at Tea Party Protests. They all feature "creative" spelling or grammar. This new dialect of the English language shall be known as "Teabonics."
Some of these are just oopses and the sign versions of typos. But some... I mean, damn. Mainly, I just want to spread the practice of calling this sort of thing " -
Daily Mail Song
(via deathboy)
"Hello everyone. Me & Dan have written a song about The Daily Mail (a British newspaper).
We're aware this video won't mean an awful lot if you've never heard of The Daily Mail, but on the plus side, you've never heard of The Daily Mail."Because a lot of my friends are American, I think I can best describe the Daily Mail as something like ( Read more... ) -
Vandalism!
It's official. For the first time, there have been intentional penmarks made in a book I bought, a book I read, with my consent and intent.
Admittedly, said penmarks were put there by the author of the book. Still, baby steps.
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Always doublecheck translations
Also, if you offer a translation service, make sure your automated replies go out in several languages.
E-mail error ends up on road sign, from the beeb, by way of cranky_editors. -
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Political, but not from this side of the pond...
If your attempt to attack your political opponents and make a splash among the social networking intelligentsia goes utterly tits-up because you failed to take even the most basic security precautions regarding the data you gleefully snorted up from other people... if in fact you actually let those ( Read more... )
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