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Can you find all 27 errors?

Started by Amicale, July 16, 2012, 09:34:48 PM

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Amicale

This is something fun I found on Facebook. How many errors can you find?



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Ali

I can't even get through all of it...it's too painful to read.

En_Route

Quote from: Ali on July 16, 2012, 09:44:43 PM
I can't even get through all of it...it's too painful to read.

It reminds me too closely of  some of my students' essays. And they were the better ones.
Some ideas are so stupid only an intellectual could believe them (Orwell).

Ali

Given that you are a lawyer, I would assume that your students were studying law.  If that's so, I shudder for the future of the profession.   :D

Asmodean

I don't know if it's 27 or not, but yes, I can find a buttload of mistakes and bad language.
Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on July 25, 2013, 08:18:52 PM
In Asmo's grey lump,
wrath and dark clouds gather force.
Luxembourg trembles.

En_Route

Quote from: Ali on July 16, 2012, 09:56:19 PM
Given that you are a lawyer, I would assume that your students were studying law.  If that's so, I shudder for the future of the profession.   :D

I exaggerated a little but in truth the standards of liiteracy and the capacity for self- expression in what (in my grouchy declining years) I brand as the Facebook Generation are often quite dismal. Higher Education in the UK has degenerated in the most part into a ferocious internecine struggle between Academic institutions to secure bums on seats , with, to maintain the anatomical theme, a consequent race to the bottom.
Some ideas are so stupid only an intellectual could believe them (Orwell).

Asmodean

In my experience, most Facebook-generation kids are actually quite literate when it matters... But it may well be a local thing.

Still, I have no real trouble understanding the language they use in textmessages and the like either, so... No complaints here.
Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on July 25, 2013, 08:18:52 PM
In Asmo's grey lump,
wrath and dark clouds gather force.
Luxembourg trembles.

Crow

Reads like my writing. But I cant spot a damn thing  :'(
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DeterminedJuliet

I got to number 6 in the second line and then I had to stop. Ow, my brain.

"We've thought of life by analogy with a journey, with pilgrimage which had a serious purpose at the end, and the THING was to get to that end; success, or whatever it is, or maybe heaven after you're dead. But, we missed the point the whole way along; It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing, or dance, while the music was being played.

Siz

Quote from: Crow on July 16, 2012, 10:14:06 PM
Reads like my writing. But I cant spot a damn thing  :'(
You're looking but not seeing...

When one sleeps on the floor one need not worry about falling out of bed - Anton LaVey

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Recusant

QuoteSharpen You're Your Grammar Skill's Skills!

How does do good grammar skills help we us as people? Being that Since I used to teach english English, I've drove driven people crazy, men and woman women alike, giving there their grammar a work out workout. Punctuation, sentence structure, and verb tenses drug drag out to infinity. With training, people can learn to gradually make alot a lot less many fewer mistakes then than before, but how dose does good grammar give me and you you and me a better way of life? I don't think it should be for it's its own sake, but rather a hole whole mindset that you operate with. This mindset is one of respect for one's language, and a of distaste for slovenly communication. You can always choose to improve yourself, and to begin, you you'd better be your own worst critic, and not other people's!

I only found 24, though if somebody were being overnice and following the "no prepositions at the end of a sentence" pseudo-rule, they would write "mindset with which you operate." Also, the last sentence could be split after "yourself" to avoid being a run-on sentence.  :D
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— H. L. Mencken


Crow

Quote from: Scissorlegs on July 17, 2012, 12:31:34 AM
You're looking but not seeing...

Well I can see loads now (probably all of them) but I just don't notice the mistakes in the first pass. The longer I look the more mistakes I start to see as a pattern emerges. For me it's easier to spot the odd mistake in well constructed grammar as it stands out like a sore thumb, but if its bad in the first place I find it hard to see, I will notice that something is wrong but won't be sure. The bad Language is easy to spot as it doesn't make sense but that detracts from the grammar, the awful typography is even worse for this. With dyslexia you have to be aware of your own limitations and find a method that works with the accepted conventions, but one method that might work for one person doesn't work for another so you constantly have to experiment.
Retired member.

DeterminedJuliet

#12
Quote from: Recusant on July 17, 2012, 12:52:54 AM
QuoteSharpen You're Your Grammar Skill's Skills!

How does do good grammar skills help we us as people? Being that Since I used to teach english English, I've drove driven people crazy, men and woman women alike, giving there their grammar a work out workout. Punctuation, sentence structure, and verb tenses drug drag out to infinity. With training, people can learn to gradually make alot a lot less many fewer mistakes then than before, but how dose does good grammar give me and you you and me a better way of life? I don't think it should be for it's its own sake, but rather a hole whole mindset that you operate with. This mindset is one of respect for one's language, and a of distaste for slovenly communication. You can always choose to improve yourself, and to begin, you you'd better be your own worst critic, and not other people's!

I only found 24, though if somebody were being overnice and following the "no prepositions at the end of a sentence" pseudo-rule, they would write "mindset with which you operate." Also, the last sentence could be split after "yourself" to avoid being a run-on sentence.  :D

QuoteSince I used to teach english English, I've drove driven people crazy, men and woman women alike, giving there their grammar a work out workout.

I'd stick a "by" after "alike". Since I used to teach English, I've driven people crazy, men and women alike, by giving their grammar a workout.
I'd probably also stick em-dashes before and after "men and women alike", but that's more personal preference.

QuotePunctuation, sentence structure, and verb tenses drug drag out to infinity.
I'd change "sentence structure" to "sentence structures" since "verb tenses" and "punctuation" are already plural (I may have cheated and consulted my hubby about whether "punctuation" should be considered plural).  

Uhhh, beyond that, there's a whole lot of redundant language that I'd probably cut out, but I don't know how much of it would technically count as errors.
"We've thought of life by analogy with a journey, with pilgrimage which had a serious purpose at the end, and the THING was to get to that end; success, or whatever it is, or maybe heaven after you're dead. But, we missed the point the whole way along; It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing, or dance, while the music was being played.

Whitney

I think I would have to print it out and mark it up in order to sort it out.

Siz

Quote from: Whitney on July 17, 2012, 02:43:30 AM
I think I would have to print it out and mark it up in order to sort it out.

Haha, ditto. I ran out of fingers and then gave up. Not sure what I expected to happen :D

When one sleeps on the floor one need not worry about falling out of bed - Anton LaVey

The universe is a cold, uncaring void. The key to happiness isn't a search for meaning, it's to just keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense, and eventually you'll be dead!