I sit here and it makes me so sad. So unbelievably sad. My friend who I will not humiliate by disclosing her website msn’s me excitedly. “I have a business and it’s up and going,” she chirps. “Go to the site.” She gives me the address, and there is very little text on the page, …
Category Archives: wording and grammar
Still Want That Flu-shot?
One of our loyal Vomiteers, Brad, pointed this story out to me. HEALTH CAMPAIGN MAKES ‘L’ OF A MISTAKE I thought they gave you those shots in your arm. Now I’m definitely not getting one. An embarrassing spelling mistake has caused Nova Scotia’s Health Department to recall thousands of pins meant to support the annual …
That Helps, Thanks
I’m sure that by now those of you who have been trying to access the Salty Ham website either through our link or on your own have noticed that the site is down and that it has been for quite a long time. But I’d be willing to put money on the fact that not …
Post Of Colour
I wish that people would stop using the term people of colour to describe minorities, and not just because it’s more of that PC bullshit I hate so much. I’m looking at things more from the angle that it just doesn’t make sense. Don’t even try arguing that it does, because quite simply, you’re wrong. …
The Envelope Please
I just read this over onCBC News.It’s too funny not to post. Rumsfeld world’s best language-manglerLast Updated Tue, 02 Dec 2003 13:11:37 LONDON – U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has emerged the “clear” winner for a British award given to the worst mangler of the English language. The Plain English Campaign has handed Rumsfeld this …