Tue 4 Nov 2014
A River Run’s Through It
Posted by anaglyph under Australiana, Punctuation, Signs, Words
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With thanks to the Omenator.
Punctuation
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Fri 24 Oct 2014
Whatthefucktorium
Posted by anaglyph under Australiana, Daft Advertising, Punctuation, Stupidity, Words
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This season, from the people who brought you ‘The Early Bird Get’s the Right Size‘ (catapostrophe intended) we are treated to an exciting new adventure in language mangling with their wholesale invention of the word ‘giftorium’. So confused and befuddled by this word was I, that I had to look it up just to make sure there was no obscure Latin usage with which I was not familiar. This is typical of about the first hundred Google hits: ((There’s nothing quite like seeing all these search results in one long stream to help you understand how marketing press releases get used in the wild…))
Oh my fucking absinthe-addled maiden aunt. This should be a crime against humanity. Think of the poor children.
Thu 8 Mar 2012
You Want Fry’s with That?
Posted by anaglyph under Australiana, Daft Advertising, Idiots, Punctuation
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Yes, dear Acowlytes, I can hear your cry’s of angst from here. I know you’d all love to be fly’s on the wall to hear some kind of explanation for the proliferation of the above atrocities, but our spy’s have been unable to shed any light on the matter. It seems that the ink hardly even dry’s before these labels are printed and the products shipped. I’d love for the sky’s to open up and lightning to fry these idiot’s asses, but I fear it’s a forlorn hope.
Tue 15 Jul 2008
You Can “Quote” Me On That!
Posted by anaglyph under Australiana, Punctuation, Signs
[16] Comments
The quotation marks? Anybody?
Tue 8 Apr 2008
snd reinfrcmnts: cmpny going 2 advnce
Posted by anaglyph under Annunciation, Blogs I Like:, Geek, Punctuation, Words
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I’ve been lurking over at Reasons You Will Hate Me for a bit these last couple of weeks. Ms Fits, who is the proprietor, is funny I think, and can spell and use punctuation, which does make for a more readable experience than many.
Unlike myself, Ms Fits is famous in the blogging world. My observations of RYWHM suggest that this has advantages and disadvantages:
Advantage: Lots of people read and comment.
Disadvantage: Lots of stupid people read and comment.
But I digress from the point of this post. Her recent post on bad texting in the face of calamity is amusing. It refers to this story about a ‘school machete rampage*’ in which five youths went on a spree through a Sydney highschool wielding baseball bats, swords, machetes and other sporting equipment.
Ms Fits tells us that she feels that a text message sent to the outside world even under such duress should be spelled correctly (in contrast to the one that the newspaper intercepted), and it will come as no surprise to you, dear Acowlytes, to hear that I agree with her on this matter. She then proposes that the predictive texting on phones should be updated to include abbreviated messages that can be sent quickly in times of peril. She gives an example, viz:
SND HLP GNMN/OMG BMB/TWN TWRS :(
This got me to thinking. In the great moments of our past, what would the shapers of human history have texted, if the technology had been available? I have offered you one such example here on The Cow.
Keep your suggestions short. You get charged more after 160 characters.
(Extra points if you show off yr mad Photoshopping skilz).
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*There’s another one o’ them thar Zombie Words.
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Sat 10 Dec 2005
… and further to that:
Posted by anaglyph under Philosophy, Punctuation, Silly, Whimsy
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This sentence has threee erors.
