Why can't you write/speak proper?

Today I thought I’d drop in a few photos of very public english usage failures …

Finding $50 may at least assist with paying for the tow.

I guess if you’re that big a racist to start with, then you were never going to be the sharpest tool in the shed.

We all thank you.

And one I took myself this morning …

Like any grammar nazi, I get really annoyed when I see very public spelling errors. I get even more annoyed when those errors were introduced deliberately, by some complete numb-nut, as “corrections”. Here are two that got to me this morning. They’re both quite old, and have each been around for years now, but that doesn’t mean I’ve accepted them yet.

Australia is going through something of a political crisis at the moment. We’re in the very sad situation where enough voters were sucked in by a campaign of lies and deceit that a bunch of morons were elected and they are now progressively destroying our nation. The other side of politics, however, is the Australian Labor Party. How the hell am I expected to vote for a party that can’t even spell its own party name right?

And as a Science Fiction fan from my early childhood, I never understood why some dickhead television executive would change the perfectly logical and well-understood SciFi cable channel name to “SyFy”. WTF? What is “siffy”? That means nothing! At least SciFi meant something – we all knew what the channel was for and what programs we could expect from its name. Now? If someone can please explain what a “siffy” is, I’d be most grateful.

Two dumb changes that need to be corrected and changed back. I could vote for the Australian Labour Party, and I’d look forward to many pleasant hours watching Science Fiction on the SciFi channel. But right now, neither get my vote.