Political Discourse Fail

Huffingtonpost always has spirited commentors. But this one takes it too far:

"This is truth about both political parties."

Should read: This is the truth about both political parties."

The first doesn't even sound correct.

Facebook Pet Peeve

This is a small thing, but it is a pet peeve when people don't have a verb in their facebook statues.

For example, "Ellen so happy and so excited!" showed up on my newsfeed this morning. Ellen is? Ellen was? 

I'll never know. 

Final Week

Many people's facebook statuses are about how many finals they have.

Many announce the number like this: "Susie has 5 finals left!" "Tim has 3 more!"

Friendly reminder: In this case, numbers less than 10 should be written out. School is almost over, good grammar isn't.

Fashionista Fail

As any fashionista knows, it's Christian Louboutin, NOT Laboutin.

It's just a misspelling, but come on Marie Claire-this is suppose to be your speciality.

Word Fail

DUin page 24

Reads: "Would I have come attended the games after I saw how they played?"

Should read: Word fail. either come to or attended, but not both.

Duin, page 23

Reads: "The cool thing was that, I learned it in one day."

Should read: No comma needed.

Sunday Morning Fail

Duin, pg 18.

Reads: "Change out of your Sunday's Best."

Should read: "Change out of your Sunday best."

Don't need to capitalize best, and we don't need possession on Sunday.

spacing fail

Duin pg 14

"other than the fact that t he vandal..."

Should read: Obviously, t he should be one word- the. t isn't a word and he isn't what we want here. 

Will Will Will

DUIN pg 11

Reads: "...due to the anticipation that it will God will strike it down"

Should read:  There are several options here, but here's one: "due to the anticipation that God will strike it down."

Extra words doesn't let anyone win

Time to Modify

DUIN, page 10.

Reads: "...will be sufficient for the week long celebration of drinking"

Should read: "...will be sufficient for the week-long celebration.."

We need a hyphen here. Week modifies long.

DUIN

Duin spring 09 issue, page 8

"Night is coming on, and you've gotta plan your move for the evening."

Should read: you have. These kind of contractions are fine when we are talking, but when written, they should be spelled out. 

Duin

On page 5 of Duin spring 09 issue: (well, your mom's)

There should be a period after mom's.

It needs some kind of punctuation.

Final though about this sad advertisement/picture. President and United States should both be capitalized.  Proper nouns and rules about state titles. 

Administration Fail

Speaking of this picture, the title should be two separate sentences. You're the President of the United States. Which Friends would be in your administration?

Punctuation. You should use it. 

facebook fail

Sent on facebook chat:

Anonymous: Between you and I, that was the worst class ever.

It should be between you and ME.

***Word to the wise: It's always between you and ME. 

Jimmy Fallon Fail

bachelors degree. not Bachelor's degree.

Hope the degree wasn't in editing.

http://perezhilton.com/2009-05-10-back-to-school

perez hilton facebook

Its. not it's.

http://perezhilton.com/2009-05-10-murder-inc-dropping-ashanti

President Fail

This was sent to me on Facebook. Your the president of the United States?

It should be you are. You're.