Engrish & Funny Typos

Well, I thought that things like boiling water were pretty simple, and were even more simple when it came to a pot of water for a coffee maker but it would seem that I have been proven wrong. I do have a problem though with the run on sentence that they have going on. There needs to be at the very least a semicolon after the first independent clause.

If I were an English teacher, I would have such a field day with the lack of proper punctuation in this paper.

I’m just going to go ahead and copy this word for word -

Go to Wall Mat

Lest For Wall Mat

2 Qorts of oll 30 wet
2 Box’s of Dod food
Toylet paper 12 Big Rols $5.50 Family Dolalr
Get Sum pekgers Davlmt
Get some Deoteret (insert picture of deodorant)  SPEED Stick
Lady Sup
Bady wesh
Paper Towles 8 Rolls $6.00 Family Dollar
Dayer send’s
Tide Powder 43 to 55 lood’s.
Gain Lood’s Ligtid 45 to 64 Powder 63 to go

This person may be a terrible speller, but at least he or she is smart enough to know that Wal-Mart matches lower prices.  Let’s just hope they brought that Family Dollar circular to the store with them, and that they used their own list, other than sending a more literate family member.

Another misuse of apostrophes. The poor thing needs to be put out of its misery, at least on this van.

What makes this such an amazing picture is that not only is their error posted once in huge bold letters, but it is everywhere else! How was this possible? They couldn’t even reach an agreement either, what with pie’s being possessive and burgers being pluralized. Again, the repetitive nature of this picture just screams out “Look! We’re incorrect grammar and we’re here forever!”

On a second thought, who thought pies and burgers?

I assume that by keeping you best on what looks to be a water advertisement, they are saying to keep yourself healthy, or at your best. I appreciate their concern but would appreciate a proofreader for such advertisements as well.

This store apparently only has one employee.

My question is, to which singular possession does this sign refer?  Are we talking about this employee’s only door?  Will we find the employee’s only break room, or only toilet inside?

By Rachel

Another user-submitted typo, taken from a video game review video. I’m not sure how many of you are familiar with The Angry Video Game Nerd or his review of all of the Ghostbuster’s video games. This particular selection was found in his review in which the AVGN went through and counted all of the mistakes found on this screen that you see after beating the game.

Submitted by Dylan R.

We saw this sign at the New Smyrna Beach Wells Fargo bank.  Obviously, this is a violation of subject-verb agreement.

Another misuse of quotation marks, giving those of us with more intimate knowledge of English grammar a slightly dirty chuckle.