I am well aware that mine is far from perfect but I try to remember what I was taught, and for this purpose it isn't so important that my spelling, punctuation and grammar are spot on.
I chose to bring this up because of two particular writing faux-pas that I have becoming increasingly aware of recently.
The first is the swapping of 'then' and 'than'. I don't understand how this came about, in no way does it sound right or look right... but I have seen this one countless times in both TheHundreds blog and TheAwardTour blog, which makes it more of a wind-up because they both run excellent brands and blogs, and generally write really well, so Bobby and Phil I'm sorry, but please stop!
The second and the most important one is the Lemar and Dauley shirt I saw earlier today, when i first saw it I thought 'Shit! that tee is crazy dope!' It was a print of a cartoony blimp with "ICE CUBES A PIMP" written on it. I've always loved that song so to see it refferenced so well was great...only it didn't take long before I realised the missing apostrophe, rendering the
blimp-emblazened quote as nonsense.
Great work, poor education, clearly.
I wonder if anyone else notices.
Here's a book for ya'll.
"you better run a check"
A.C.
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