What's that sound? Why, it's the grammar police.

[pen_grunt]

I have to make careful disclosures every time I post something like this: I do not have a perfect or infallible command of the English language. I make grammar (and spelling, and punctuation...) mistakes--and when I make them, they're huge, grand, public, beautifully embarrassing mistakes.

But this is just one instance out of many of the Minneapolis Public Library (or Liberry, as most of the users I hear call it) not proofing their stuff too carefully:

How much are library worth to me? They worth lots. Especially where grammar and literacy is concerned.

They may be slowly adapting a northern dialect of LOL Cat.

(To be fair, they got it right in the actual headline, just not the link.)

Comments

[gloomchen.livejournal.com]

Speaking of grammar police. Help me make this make some sense:

Some day when you see my face
You will think that you have won
And some day when it’s all away
Our love just begun

That's what happens when you let Britney Spears write her own lyrics, apparently.

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of with it until the last line...then it just runs off the Tense tracks.

Holy hell, why does anyone let Britney Spears do anything on her own nowadays? It's a train wreck, but not a fun train wreck anymore. I just want her to stop. Everything.

[gloomchen.livejournal.com]

Britney is my favorite train wreck. Lindsay and Paris aren't nearly as fun.

As my friends have joked... K-Fed could walk into a custody hearing with pet carriers and a whip, and the judge would still send the kids home with him.

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

I really, really never thought I'd see the day where K-Fed came off looking like the responsible parent in that equation.

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

Err...ehhem...comes off.

Err... *shrug*

the ol' college try

[sarcasma.livejournal.com]

Maybe the first three lines are all referring to their love, which has just begun?

Of course, that still leaves you with "Someday when it's all [gone?] away WHAT?"

[gwangi.livejournal.com]

Maybe she's doing a Song From Scratch thingy and has no choice?

[llythefaerye.livejournal.com]

Nice. Very nice. Did you tell them?

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

Nah. That's not my thing...correcting people where others may see it in email.

I much prefer the passive-aggressive posting it all over the internet.