No cute Pinterest quote is safe from the grumpy grammar police, especially if the quote is sort of stupid to begin with…
I’m sorry, but if you’re going to be all deep, at least use the correct punctuation.
Also, please check out The Pintester Movement! I posted about it yesterday and I want to get lots of participation. My goal is to have 150 blogs and posts to link to, and right now I have 44 people pledged to go, so add your name! It’s all empowering and shit.
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And skipping a period is pretty terrifying.
Hear, hear!
I have read inspirational pins many a time only to resist repinning when I liked the sentiment but wanted to stab the illiterate imbecile who misused punctuation or misspelled “too” or “they’re”.
Those who skip periods are generally pregnant or menopausal. There’s a warning for all of us!
Can we talk about the misquoting of Oscar Wilde and Shakespeare for a minute? I once read a supposed Wilde quote that included the phrase “…it doesn’t matter if someone drives a nice car…” *Wow*.
Oh, the miss-attributed quotes drive me nuts. Especially that ‘when I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew’ which is always attributed to Shakespeare and emphatically is NOT. Gah.
My favourite anachronistic one was Marilyn Monroe apparently talking about people being size zero (she died in 1962, size 0 has been around since the 90s).
Isobel, that’s my favorite too “quote”, too! So I made this reply awhile back. 🙂
I like to call it Fakespeare. I had to study whopping great chunks of his stuff at school and when I see it mis-quoted or mis-attributed I want to stab the perpetrator in the neck. With a fork. Wow, that was a bit of therapy!
A fork by any other name would stab as painfully.
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard favored rage. Yeah, so there.
Sounds suspiciously like PMS…
Those who skip periods, could be pregnant
bwahahahahhaa
I can’t be the only one who saw “Those who skip periods, could use extra condoms.”
Amen; Sister? Amen,
Noooo….I really wanted that to post under this name. My account got all mucked up with having to use the password. At least now it is fixed.
Skipped periods are dangerous, yo! Either you end up in labor, screaming, “I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I’M NEVER HAVING SEX WITH YOU AGAIN, YOU STUPID ASSHOLE!” or you end up having something that reads like a three year old on a sugar high.
I went to the zoo today and we saw tigers and monkeys and they had this really great penguin exhibit i like penguins because they always look formally dressed they never have to worry about black tie events they just show up and say YO WHERE THE PARTY AT MY NERDIZZLES and then they get really drunk and fall over and they cant get back up because they have no hands and they end up wobbling around on the ground and screeching for someone to help them kinda like me when i go to a party
If I use poor grammar as well does that mean I skip 7 days of bleeding?