Entries Tagged as 'Grammar'

McGrammar at McDonald’s

Washington DC McDonald's Poster Grammar Typo

This apostrophe catastrophe poster lives in a Washington, D.C., McDonald’s. It’s strange that they have so many harder grammar elements correct and yet totally blew the easier ones.

Michelina’s Chef Inspired Recipe Label

I don’t understand why you would want to advertise that your recipe was inspired by chefs. Wouldn’t you want your recipe to actually be created by real live chefs?

Michelina's Chef Inspired Recipe food label mistake

Look, We Have to Stop Saying, “Look”

The president started it.

Now everyone is doing it—even me.

And it’s driving me crazy.

  1. Please don’t say Look when you mean Listen.
  2. Please don’t even say Listen. It’s condescending and automatically puts the listener on the defensive.

I know President Obama is going to have trouble stopping this linguistic tic because he probably does it all the time. All of his people have caught it and are spreading it throughout the media-sphere. It’s infiltrating society.

So please, Mr. President, fix the country first. Then lead us all into better language usages.