By FITSNews || In addition to being politically-incorrect, many of you have probably noticed that from time to time our website is grammatically-incorrect, as well.
What can we say … that’s what happens when you blow your copy editing budget on the “stickiest of the icky,” people.
Fortunately, though, we’re getting some help from a funny website – Apostrophe Abuse.
And while it’s not as hilarious as, say, Things That Are Doing It, Ultimate Hate List, I’ma Let You Finish, There I Fixed It, People of Wal Mart, Awkward Family Photos or Texts From Last Night, it’s “useful funny.”
The site is also the latest example of the prodigious amount of free time America has on its hands …
Oh … before we forget … we’d also like to send a shout-out to Mrs. Sic’s grandmother, Lois Hermann, a former high school English teacher in Chicago. Woot woot, Oma!
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Apostrophe Abuse
By Wes Wolfe February 11, 2010 at 5:25 pm
You’re not politically incorrect, or grammatically incorrect, just the dumbest motherfucker in South Carolina politics that isn’t posting on “The Garnet Spy.”
By the way, buy a foamy Starbucks coffee and a 10-piece from Bojangles for me, big boy.
By Mike at the beach February 11, 2010 at 6:53 pm
Wes, you’re a tool. Don’t gloat just because your little blog operation spanks Folks’ ass every month.
Uh, wait a minute…disregard that.
Anyway, I’m digging the apostrophe thing. Americans (as part of our gradual decline into genuine stupidity) continue to mangle the English more and more each year. Poorly spelled signage, ads with atrocious grammar, and the ubiquitous misused apostrophe. Thanks modern culture and Jim Rex!
By Catherine February 11, 2010 at 7:27 pm
And what’s with this trend of using apostrophes in names. Over the past decade, the kids in my school teacher friends’ classes have increasingly had names like D’von and J’quitha (those names are actual). I went to law school with a girl who had a kid while we were there and named him D’mitri. She was in law school! She should have known better! So what, everybody is growing up to be famous rap stars now? It’s the symbolic equivalent of telling your kid, “I want you to be socially handicapped from the start, so that you can be ignorant gutter trash, just like me!” So sad! And this is totally off the apostrophe subject, but my friend has a student in Charleston who is named ABCD. Pronounced Ahh-Bee-Si-Dee. Obesity!!!!! Does that outrage anyone besides me???
By BIN News Editorial Staff February 12, 2010 at 12:11 am
“who” not “that”
The correct way to say it is: “…who isn’t posting on the Garnet Spy.”
And you should not capitalize “the” in the Garnet Spy. Just like you write the State, you should write the Garnet Spy. Look it up. And the quotes around Garnet Spy are not necessary. That’s why you capitalize it.
sic(k) willie’s grammar is better that some, but most SC bloggers and porn hosts obviously cut class in high school when they should have been in English. That’s one reason these political pimps can’t get a real job.
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By Columbia Insider February 12, 2010 at 12:29 pm
better “than” some, bin, not “that.”
By Costello February 12, 2010 at 2:40 pm
I always like perusimng this site: http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/
It’s “hilarious.”