People Can't Spell!

Do not despair, the Typo Eradication Advancement League have just completed a tour around the USA to fight the good fight.

What the hell kind of restaurants are you going to? :stuck_out_tongue:

In-N-Out Burger.

I remember back in the first Iraq war, seeing a photo of American airmen loading a bomb aboard a plane, and chalked on it was a message 'Highjack this, you fags".

That got a lot of complaints from GLBT Americans about the bigotry displayed.

But the biggest complaints were from the Gay Lesbian Teachers Network, who were incensed both by the bigotry, and also by the spelling error!

I work in a public library. We’re supposed to be the stewards of literacy, you know? Our new restroom signs were installed a few months ago, and they read:

MENS

WOMENS

The elevator sign in our parking lot reads:

ELEVATOR IN OPERATION FROM 8 AM - MIDNITE

Our staff has produced posters for special library programs in the last month reading LEARN THE CRAFT OF ORAGAMI and FOCUS ON GENERE LITERATURE.

I cry a lot when I’m alone.

That must explain my friend’s magnet:

“All the coffee in Columbia won’t wake me up today.”

How do you know so much about what your doctor does for water?

:wink:

What the eff is genere supposed to read?

Genre, I expect.

Well, there are at least six Starbucks listed for Columbia, MD. So maybe (probably not, but maybe) that is what they’re getting at??

Just sayin’. . .

I caught a little bit of “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?” last night, and noticed that when they used a question sent in by a viewer, they posted a message onscreen that said that his class “will recieve a new computer lab.” That’s when I turned it off.

Over here, the English-language bathroom signs frequently read MAN and WOMAN. And we have a Midnite Bar in the Soi Cowboy bar area.

I’ve been trying for ages to figure out if I need to tell the local grocery store that their signs listing their summer hours should not read “Summer Hour’s.”

So what colour was your plough when you got it off of the aeroplane?

Yesterday at work I noticed a letter drafted from our office to the leasing office of one of our buildings. It was referring to the space being leased on “Friday’s”. This typo occurred several times throughout the letter. I hate for it to be mailed, but I can’t bring it to anyone’s attention to be corrected because I was just being nosy and had no business reading it, anyway. Sigh.

Here’s a weirdness: many people here refer to it in the plural. Like this:

Q: Does he have his drivers’ license?

A: Yeah, he’s got 'em.

or

A: Naw, they got lost in the mail.

It’s confusing.