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I wood get dis but eye can't pull off wearing that hideous colour ;) Nicely done though!

I want one! But I just bought a shirt yesterday. Maybe I'll have to sleep on it.

How many of you read your comment multiple times before you posted it? Just to be sure you had your grammar right.

Thank you for not getting the person that puts together the letters that tell me that there is someone dieing, or has already passed away and now they want me to take their large sum of cash and do something with it.

Then again, they might have done an even funnier writeup without even trying. The problem with those people is that there is always someone that wants like $300 to fill out some form or something.

rworthin wrote:While I agree that the conditional verb construction ought to be used, it seems to me that it is due to the speculative construction of the dependent clause.

Either way, I just can't get this shirt because of that mistake.

Ditto. It's almost perfect, but not quite. *sigh*

clav08 wrote:The write-up certainly makes me want to tear my eyeballs out of their sockets.

My thoughts exactly. It hurts to look at it.

Which is not to slam the artist; if anything, it's praise. It's so brutal to grammar that I can't look.

Sadly... the sentances ended wit exclamation points... i think it shud have ended in ...

elp81807 wrote:I need this shirt! I HATE...HATE...(did I say HATE) when you get an official letter or email from a business or such and there is bad spelling or poor grammar! I mean really, what about people check instead of spell check.

YES!! I once received an email from Ben & Jerry's that had me twitching... see the offending content here:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=113259106196&set=a.92752076196.104707.668581196

I NEED THIS SHIRT.

I can't even count the number of times I've wanted to attack a website with a pen. Upon getting hired by my company, I took it upon myself to become the resident Grammar N*** and copy editor, viciously editing our website and all written communications. I even edited the signs posted in the kitchen.

*Happily walks away, picturing herself giving the red pen treatment to the internet...*

EDIT: Wondered what happened. Woot does not like a certain word I used there and edited it out... I fix it. XD

Stop mocking Florida's FCAT scores!!!

I wonder if a red fabric pen would work to correct "I'll" to "I'd" or "I would". It's a shame that I can't buy this shirt, because it illustrates a lot of what I do for a living--at least for my little corner of the web.

steezysnow wrote:How many of you read your comment multiple times before you posted it? Just to be sure you had your grammar right.

Me: "Sentence fragment! Called it!"

Former tech writer me: "That is a sentence fragment! I called it!"

who has the time for capital letters? overrated.

Needs moar exclamation marks!!!!!

If you know more people who this shirt would benefit then the number of times this shirt applies to your everyday life, then you should get it for all those friends ;)

ronnysrv wrote:My biggest internet grammar pet peeves are:

your, you're

there, their, they're

People, please learn them. Please.

That is a very common thing to twitch about. But I roll my eyes at those that do. I know that I type the last one I used ( though I tend not to use contractions, so that takes some of those mistakes out of the picture) and not necessarally the one appropriate for the sentence. So one or two errors aren't that important to me in a non-business setting.

What I twitch over are the ones like the write up, where they have apparently only learned to write in order to text. I also hate trying to guess what all the abbreviations mean. TOAFSYDA!!!

Ink should be plural!

Correcting grammar on the internets requires lots of red inks!

elizalishly wrote:...I took it upon myself to become the resident Grammar I wanted you guys to know I'm ignorant and copy editor..."

That's an interestingly judgmental filter you have there, Woot. I find nothing "ignorant" about the filtered word, but it's your site. I think you could find a cuter, less personally offensive way to call out verboten terms.

I'm not the grammarian that some of you appear to be, but I did edit a magazine for a number of years and my teeth still hurt when I see some of the blatent errors people make. I can handle conventional speech patterns that are not quite grammatical (ending a sentence in a preposition when speaking doesn't phase me.... much), but I have to add a few pet peeves of my own:

1.) The use of "I" when it really SHOULD be "me." I suspect that people are so concerned about being correct that they assume it's safer to always use "I." Nothing grates on my grammar nerves as much as hearing "Would you like to come to lunch with Suzie and I?" Argh!

2.) The use of "that" or "which" when the correct word should be "who" or even "whom." For example, "I went to lunch with my friend than just got married." Double argh! A FRIEND is usually a PERSON not a thing!

The magazine I edited published articles that were mostly written by health and mental health professionals. If you think a doctor has bad handwriting, you should see how bad his article writing skills are!

Ok, I've probably committed several grammar faux pas in this comment, but I feel better for having written it.

aT lEaSt ThIs iNtErWebZ fAd iZ oVeR... (I hope)

grippy wrote:That's an interestingly judgmental filter you have there, Woot. I find nothing "ignorant" about the filtered word, but it's your site. I think you could find a cuter, less personally offensive way to call out verboten terms.

I'll make sure that gets passed on, thanks!

blatant



hehehehe

BelyndaG wrote:I'm not the grammarian that some of you appear to be, but I did edit a magazine for a number of years and my teeth still hurt when I see some of the blatent errors people make. I can handle conventional speech patterns that are not quite grammatical (ending a sentence in a preposition when speaking doesn't phase me.... much), but I have to add a few pet peeves of my own:

1.) The use of "I" when it really SHOULD be "me." I suspect that people are so concerned about being correct that they assume it's safer to always use "I." Nothing grates on my grammar nerves as much as hearing "Would you like to come to lunch with Suzie and I?" Argh!

2.) The use of "that" or "which" when the correct word should be "who" or even "whom." For example, "I went to lunch with my friend than just got married." Double argh! A FRIEND is usually a PERSON not a thing!

The magazine I edited published articles that were mostly written by health and mental health professionals. If you think a doctor has bad handwriting, you should see how bad his article writing skills are!

Ok, I've probably committed several grammar faux pas in this comment, but I feel better for having written it.

ronnysrv wrote:My biggest internet grammar pet peeves are:

your, you're

there, their, they're

People, please learn them. Please.

It's the difference between knowing your s#!t and knowing you're s#!t

the grammar in the write-up is killing me x_X

Unfortunately, this was a gold mine of an idea, but it's missing all of the most annoying errors that I come across nearly every day. Could have been done better, and more poignantly, for the illiterate droolers out there.

and an apostrophe

tigerxchaos wrote:Unfortunately, this was a gold mine of an idea, but it's missing all of the most annoying errors that I come across nearly every day. Could have been done better, and more poignantly, for the illiterate droolers out there.

The first incarnation of this design was completely different and included all of the most annoying errors on it, but the shirt just looked like a jumbled mess. I decided to go with simple for a shirt design. Maybe I can make a poster with the more complicated version!

Thanks for the great comments today! You guys are keeping me entertained.

neuropsychosocial wrote:Women's shirts listed as printing on AA!

Where do you see that? I have yet to buy a shirt on the new blanks, and am worried about the sizing!

Very amusing Congrats fishbiscuit!

Best...Shirt...Ever!!!

ruthszp wrote:Where do you see that? I have yet to buy a shirt on the new blanks, and am worried about the sizing!

There's three ways to tell: if you look at the sizing chart, Anvil (new, larger) sizes have measurements in whole numbers and it will say "made in Honduras/Nicaragua" on the bottom of the sizing chart; AA (older, smaller) sizes have measurements in weird fractions (3/8th, 5/16th) and the bottom of the sizing chart will say "made in USA." Be careful to distinguish between men's/women's/kids, because some shirts - like today's - will print on AA for one and Anvil for others. If you look at the sizing chart for today's shirt, you'll see that it's printing on AA (more fitted) in women's sizes and Anvil (larger) in men's and kids'.

Plus, we're keeping a post in the Reckoning thread updated on a daily basis. It's always a good idea to double-check the sizing chart for each individual shirt before purchasing, but that list is generally accurate unless woot has switched a shirt over within the past 12 hours.

neuropsychosocial wrote:There's three ways to tell

Thanks!

The only reason I'm not buying this is it doesn't make sense that there would be so much blank space between "off" and the exclamation point in the pre-edited shirt. If it would have had a deleted period and the exclamation was added with the red I would have bought it.

quezzie wrote:YES!! I once received an email from Ben & Jerry's that had me twitching... see the offending content here:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=113259106196&set=a.92752076196.104707.668581196

Just to be correct, the possessive "on Monday's Buy One Sundae" is 100% correct, even with the "on" preceding it. i.e. "You went to Jenny's house on Jenny's birthday." The birthday still belongs to Jenny even with the word 'on' preceding it.

The "Buy One Sundae" event belongs to and on Monday, and Monday alone. That being said, the "One Sunday Free" is madness.

I'm a copy editor, so I bought one!

margiecakes wrote:As a high school English teacher who happily wears woot shirts to work almost every day, this is a know-brianer.

However, I must confess that I do not use red pen. I opt to mark papers with colored pencils, preferably green or purple, as red is damaging to the fragile egos* of my young scholars.




*Right. Like anything could damage their egos other than being de-friended on facebook.

ha ha! That "no-brianer" was a real no-brainer. This one is mild compared to the mistakes I had made in my late night posts. (:

Great shirt fb!

If only Woot shirts were made in women's style...you know, V neck, cap sleeves? Or better yet, tank top and spaghetti strap styles...

Funny idea, great execution. Congrats on a winner!

dwimmz wrote:I think, for once, it is appropriate for me to don my policeman's badge and use the forums to point out a grammatical error that still remains on the shirt. I believe "I'll run out of red ink!" would be more properly stated as "I'd run out of red ink!" or "I would run out of red ink!" because it is part of a counterfactual construction and therefore requires the conditional verb "would."

Such is not necessarily the case. The writer will eventually run out of red ink, whether that ink is used in correcting the Internet or not. And once that ink is exhausted, by whatever means it has become so (or, perhaps, simply ceased to be?), then correction of the Internet becomes impossible. Such a construction allows a factual, declarative contraction of "I will" (or "I shall," for those who stand on ceremony), said contraction to be spelled "I'll" rather than "I'd."

Shouldn't there be an "apostrophe s" on that shirt somewhere?