I’m told CNN is considered a news source in the United States. From a CNN review of the Hyundai Veloster automobile comes this loose and sloppy collection of errors. Speed is a big question? No, speed is the rate of distance travelled over time. One of my biggest questions is “What happened to article before phrase ‘fourth door’?”. I, also, would like to know, what made the writer think, four spurious commas are necessary, in the second two-sentence “paragraph”—not to mention at least eight spurious words (and the writer also needs coaching on the proper deployment and configuration of parentheticals). “Back seats” is not oneword. The writer got into…er, sorry, where, exactly? What has an occupant’s lower intestinal condition to do with the lesson E must learn? For that matter, the writer seems creepily certain an occupant of the Veloster will never again be tired, thirsty, hungry, or horny; E’s sole need will be to learn a lesson once.
Semicolons Are Female???
I think you need some commas! I think you need to insert a space between a and part! I think you should learn what minx means or explain to me how it works in this context!
Stick to Games, Fellas
It’s obvious that the English language is not your specialty . . .
Of coarse!
H’m. Closed-course heavy equipment racing, maybe? Interesting. That wouldn’t've occurred to me. And that spurious comma surely builds suspense while we wait to learn what the tough leaf springs are made of!
Nonsensical Apostrophising
I swear to Jeebus, I am sick and tired of people indiscriminately apostrophizing words! If I see another bee’s, go’s, alway’s, our’s (I’m talking to you, MG Siegler at TechCrunch) or stop’s, I’m going to scream!!!
Tip: Unless you mean to write the possessive form of a noun, just err on the side of caution and leave out the damned apostrophe. If you write like the examples above, you’re probably incapable of comprehending the rules that govern apostrophe usage.
Please refer to Number 17 on the “Everything You Need to Know about Grammar” page.
Not the Brightest Bulb in the Annunciator
Again from FlightBlogger—a new goldmine for TTAG—is a comment chock full of errors. I pray to Murphy that this guy has never worked on nor will work on any plane I will fly in the future. In six lines I count fifteen errors. That’s a terrible ratio, Buzzy.