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I do generally as well, because I make too many myself (I cringe sometimes when I look back at my posts sometimes, usually after the 20 minute fix it window is up, and especially when I make the type of errors where I know better - their instead of there, here instead of hear). </p>
<p>In this case, it just seemed amusing considering the theme of the thread. I think (hope) Jym and shellz understood that.</p>
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I’m insulted!!!</p>
<p>Maybe they have a 10 character minimum.</p>
<p>Me two Swimcatsmom! </p>
<p>Needed the levity today…thnx ;-)</p>
<p>wait…wait…wait…are we criticizing an entire company over the omission of a single apostrophe on shirts?</p>
<p>Why, yes, I believe we are.</p>
<p>I think most of us are just using it as a springboard for some much needed levity. But, come on…a blatant grammatical error on a college shirt? It’s just too much to resist poking fun at. </p>
<p>And yes, I ended the previous sentence with a preposition. Takers? Anyone? Anyone?</p>
<p>;-)</p>
<p>PS…post written with tongue firmly planted in cheek.</p>
<p>They probably sold thousands of these shirts, so we’re actually talking about thousands of apostrophes. By the way, I think most of these t-shirts were sold un-ironed and within a 2-hour train ride of the U of Pennsylvania.</p>
<p>Those who scoff that it’s just an apostrophe are failing to see the big picture: If they can do this to apostrophes, just imagine what they could do to semi-colons.</p>
<p>Sent via a note pinned to the lapel of the Human Cannonball.</p>
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<p>Okay. I’ll bite. The sentence should have said: “It’s just too much at which to resist poking fun.”</p>
<p>lol…just make sure you stick your nose high up in the air whilst saying it that way please. ;-)</p>
<p>Some of you old-timers may remember that we hosted younger s’s overnight junior (HS) prom party (I still shutter and that was about 4 1/2 yrs ago). Anyway, they were all in the basement, where we happen to have a free- standing wine cellar (looks like a giant fridge). I put a sign on the outside taped across the door opening that said “Dont touch” and inside another sign (shoud they have opened it) that said “Dont even think about it”. When I saw the outside door sign the next day, someone had added the apostrophe in “don’t” and wrote a funny comment. I forget exactly what it said, but it was funny.</p>
<p>The worst “typo” I ever made was on a handmade sign for a Boy Scout potluck dinner. Next to my crockpot, I put a stack of paper bowls with a sign that read, “Bowels for chili.” I have no idea what I was thinking! I was mortified.</p>
<p>LOL mainelonghorn!!! Freudian slip??</p>
<p>“Bowels for chili.”</p>
<p>I hope the chili didn’t make anybody frat.</p>
<p>Grammar mistakes by US companies are hardly a new phenomenon. I’m sure there are others (“less calories” seems to be fairly easy to spot these days) but the obvious one that comes to mind for a tech person is AOL’s “You’ve Got Mail!” from 1989.</p>
<p>“I still shutter”…?</p>
<p>Heee heeee…</p>
<p>I make TERRIBLE mistakes that I like to blame on my tablet PC.</p>
<p>My 5th grade teacher once brought in one of her daughter’s sweatshirts. On the front, it was grammatically correct, but on the back, it was missing an apostrophe.</p>
<p>Well, two threads on page 1 right now have apostrophe errors in their titles. One is missing its apostrophe and the other has an extra one thrown in for good measure.</p>
<p>When apostrophes are missing it always give me pause, even if only for a moment, trying to figure out what the author really meant.</p>
<p>“You’ve Got Mail!”</p>
<p>Don’t Brits use “got” a lot?</p>
<p>You Got Mail: OK
You Have Mail: OK
You Have Got Mail: Not OK</p>
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yes, we do. Maybe that’s why I was looking at that post about “You’ve got mail” and couldn’t figure out what was wrong with it. (I did a business communications class recently and discovered there are actually a few differences between American and English grammar, in addition of course to the numerous spelling differences (which I was aware of). It was a bit of a relief to find out it is not just old age, I did actually learn to do some stuff differently.</p>
<p>Of course now that I know that, I have to try and keep straight in my head which is the English and which is the American way.</p>