Pages Tagged “Typos”
Reviews
- The Great Typo Hunt
A cross-country road trip with a Sharpie pen, correcting grammatical and spelling errors in road and shop signs. I’ve mellowed on the subject since it came out, but it’s still interesting.
Blog Posts
- An “Oustanding” Design
Yeah, I think I know why these stickers ended up at the dollar store.
- Curse Thee, Auto-Correct!
Forget the infinite monkeys. My phone had some trouble figuring out that I wanted to write “Shakespeare” on its virtual keyboard.
- “Pumkin” Seeds
A labeling error put me in mind of the educational videos my son’s been viewing, and the “No, I don’t want that!” meme.
- Goin’ On a Typo Hunt
NPR has an article on The Great Typo Hunt: Two friends cross the country with a Sharpie pen, correcting grammatical and spelling errors in road and shop signs. And there’s a book. I may need this. When I was in college in the mid-1990s, I kept a “Bent Offerings” newspaper cartoon on my bulletin board. […]
- Self-DMCA, Antivax Anger, Specter Switch
Warner Music issued a DMCA takedown notice to an official Warner Music video channel. I think I need some popcorn. From @david_colquhoun via @BadAstronomer: Guardian science editor’s daughter gets measles. He’s angry with the anti-vaccination brigade. I nearly mistyped “foreign” as “foregin.” It sounds like an appetizer you should eat before drinking gin. Senator Arlen […]
- Christmas Shopping
Need to sleep. Found myself typing “Satan Claus” by mistake. Symptom of car culture: I almost feel like I have to justify crossing the street on foot to go to another store instead of moving the car. Sun Halo. All you have to do is look up once in a while. Linens & Things: Nothing […]
- Saftey First – En Español
Just to show that English-language sign writers don’t have a monopoly on misspellings, here’s a sign we spotted at a construction site in Irvine: Literally it means “Think Safety” — or it would if it said “Piense seguridad.” The typo makes this the Spanish equivalent of “Saftey First.”
- Getting Propositioned
Oddly, the usual deluge of election propaganda hasn’t materialized yet, and the election is less than a week away. While looking through the scanty haul, most of which is focused on a quartet of propositions on Indian gaming, Katie found an intriguing statement: Wait… pubic services? Whoa! And here I thought gambling on tribal lands […]
- Irritable Liquid?
Found on the side of an AM-PM convenience store today: That’s one cranky glass of water. Or maybe Odo? My best guess is that they were trying to say something like “inflammable,” decided it wouldn’t fit, and misused a thesaurus.
- When Typos Attack!
eWeek has an article about URL Tracer, a new tool from Microsoft to keep track of typo-squatting. At one point, the article refers to “typos-quatting.” I’m sure it’ll get fixed soon, but it seems strangely appropriate.
- Those sushi chefs are such cut-ups!
Well, technically, the fish is severed…