I was browsing images in the Atrocious Apostrophe’s [sic] group on Flickr and groaning at what I saw when I decided to click on the grammar tag associated with these images.
Here is a capture of part of that page:
I can’t wait to start bidding with wild abandon on an apostasy of apostrophes!
Update: well bugger me! Apostrophe is a brand of womens clothing. I was hoping I could bid for some curvaceous glyphs.
The Piratopedia (formerly, and still commonly known as, Uncyclopedia) is a good laugh with its Onionian style of deliberate misinformation.
I hope they can keep up the quality and wonder if they will be able to sustain adequate quality control at least half as well as Wikipedia does. I fear that the temptation to hijack pages will to be too great for some people and that decent, witty folk will not be able to keep up (for example, see the entry on George W. Bush).
(The site is currently slow because it has been Slashdotted. That’s how I found it.)
When you care about language, it is easy to find poor examples of its use in public and it is tempting to complain in your blog and elsewhere. What about conspicuously good use of language in public? We should acknowledge it when we see it.
This sign is an excellent example of direct and clear language. It does not use formal ‘legalese’ but there is no ambiguity about what it means.
It appears at a number of railway stations in Brisbane, where I live.
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