Language & Grammar discussion

I had an unsolicited e-mail today which made me laugh which I thought I would share with y'all...

The writer of said e-mail was offering some marketing and branding services for my company and in the first paragraph, he said he felt "gorilla tactics" would work well. It made me chuckle (maybe I just have a peverse sense of humour!) as I would never have thought of using monkeys to help brand my company ;)

Has anyone else had seem any unfortunate mis-spellings or odd usages of words recently?

Not lately, but your gorilla experience reminds me that when I was a kid, and I heard on the radio about guerilla war, I always thought it was called that because it was going on in the jungle.

For a while, I went around photographing all the signs I could find that blew it, in hopes of developing a small book. A special on "Italian platers" was a favorite.

Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!! That's made my night!

hee!

I read the birthday suit sign to my husband and we both had a chuckle. Check out this site: http://www.roadtripamerica.com/signs/...

this one is great http://www.roadtripamerica.com/signs/...

There it is, my screwed-up sign idea from oh, 30 years ago. Someone took it and ran with it. I'll have fun going through these.

Here's the link to a funny blog called teal...the Typo Eradication Advancement League. Sorry, I don't know how to link to the site. I think you'll enjoy it, though.

http://jeffdeck.com/teal/

Well, it looks like I do know how to link! It did it for me. Gotta love those computer fairies!

Posting I just saw on craigslist:

"Do you need an occasional infant babysitter?"

No thanks, I prefer someone older than an infant to babysit my son!

Husband occasionally ACTS like an infant. Benjamin Button eventually becomes an infant. But I've never heard of an occasional infant.

Funny, I was so caught up with an infant babysitter, I didn't even notice the occasional infant!

"I like lights with the sex off." ::snickers::

This morning my husband, who is neither a naturalist nor a native English speaker, looked out of window of our cabin and said, "There's a blue jay."

When I didn't answer immediately, he had a moment of doubt. "It is a blue jay, isn't it? It's not a house fink?"

And you didn't say, "Darling, YOU are the house fink"?!!!

Oh, thank you both...a new name for hubby when he annoys me...or when he doesn't. Love it.

I have a friend who always provides a chuckle as she regularly blurts out the wrong words.
Yesterday we were discussing pedicures and spa treatments.
She proceded to tell me all about her "paraphernalia" (paraffin) wax treatment on her feet! :-)

I have one of those "house finks" too!

There once was a song called "Rat Fink!" which included the spelling out of the words. Don't recall the singer, but it wasn't Tony Bennett...

I just heard the local radio announcer (all of 13 by the sounds of her!) who said that a local bakery had won the gold medal at a pie-making competition "for the bestest mince and gravy pie". And she wasn't trying to be cute...she was dead serious. Oh help......

If she was more betterer at grammar, she'd know better than to speak like that...

To continue with my husband's trouble with things ornithological, last night we were watching the (yawn) Olympics opening, and when the assembled multitudes on the floor grouped themselves in the shape of a dove, he turned to me and said, "Oh, it's a peace pigeon."

Close enough!

And if there is one advantage to spending every July and August in a camp with no TV, the Summer Olympics would be it!

Alas, our cabin has a TV, albeit a very old and very small one. Every 4 years we watch some of the Olympics on it. That's the only time either of us ever watches sports, peace pigeons or no.

"also known as Famosa Slough w/all sorts of exhautic birds"

poor birds-they sound like they need a nap ;)

hahahahaha!!

(i don't get it.)

exhautic

ah. i not only misplace words at times, i misplace brain cells.

gray matters (just like the alma maters)...

Not as badly as local radio announcer (again) this morning, bemoaning his "reclining hairline"!! Just imagine.............

I guess that hairline "lies" instead of "lays."

Laid-back hairstyle???!

In the past tense, anyway. (Can hair be "tensed"? I know it can be teased...)

Be happy you weren't around during the French & Indian War. Tense scalps became "relaxed" scalps (and not by reading self-help books, either)...

i received a letter when my children were small and i had to temporarily "go on the dole"
the last sentence concluded with..."please use this benefit judicially"

i must admit i broke that rule as i knew nothing of the law and had not been appointed to the bench ;)

Heeheehee

and heard this evening while watching the olympic swimming events
the announcer for the men's 100 meter backstroke upon the victory by an american peli something said..."he's so good he makes everyone look like they are going backward..."

Well....that's sports commentators for you....they are renowned for it!!!

Maybe he was being humorous on purpose? I haven't seen any of the Olympics (no TV), but if I could, I'd turn off the sound (like I do when viewing baseball).

nope he was serious
no humourous inflection
no haha
no reference
just unabashed admiration for the swimmer and no recognition of the pun

i'm just glad the days of athlete bios laced with undue pathos has been eliminated

that was a good awful era of olympic announcer coverage

Now we need only yearn for deliverance from the good awful era of olympic announcer nationalism (USA! USA! USA! ETC.!).