Friday, May 28, 2010

Grammar Police

A major pet peeve of mine is the incorrect usage of there/their/they're...

This message has been sent using the picture and Video service from Verizon Wireless!

To learn how you can snap pictures and capture videos with your wireless phone visit www.verizonwireless.com/picture.

Note: To play video messages sent to email, Quicktime@ 6.5 or higher is required.

4 comments:

Queen B said...

big sigh

LoSpace said...

Yeah! YEAH! Their always screwing it up. Your so right!!!

(this message brought to you by someone other than LoSpace and her two degrees in English...)

KFuj said...

That and to, too, and two. I have to admit I still have a few students that struggle with there, their, and they're. I don't know why I drill it into them all the time, oh well!!

Bianka said...

Don't be so quick to rush to judgement! Perhaps the rest of the sign fell off! "WHO THINK THEIR GOD... EATS DONUTS" or something. You know?