Welcome to the first Correctionists post! Your team will consist of myself, Jana at An Attitude Adjustment, Kelly at The Miller Mix, and Kristen at Motherese. (Give a shout if you’d still like to participate, and remember, we’re currently accepting submissions!) I’ll be playing host to your first Correctionists post (hey, that rhymes!), and to celebrate the occasion, I come bearing my favorite type of grammatical error: the misuse of quotation marks.
Gotta say, I’m not sure I want these guys “repairing” my phone. Sounds to me like they have something entirely different (and possibly evil) in mind. Of course, after they “repair” it, I can always promise to “pay” them (wink-wink). This is why I have a soft spot for quotation mark misuse; it’s always funny. You get a generous serving of mischievous scheming along with your side of disenchantment with the state of the English language. You get the sense that it’s all in good fun. (I only wish the creators of the errors were in on the joke.)
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Those guys are “smart.”
LOL. Your comments are always a pleasure!
I love this one. I can think of no funny rejoinder like The Kitchen Witch, except that the phone “repair”man is this decade’s equivalent to the “milkman”?
So true. We’re backwoods, you know!
I’d like to point out that the ad currently running in your sidebar is for a Momversation piece called “Are We Raising a Nation of Dumbasses?”
The prosecution rests.
Why yes, yes we are. :) How appropriate!
At least they hyphenated check-up. And the ampersand is cute. =>
Yes, so much potential!
Wow. I am not even sure what would spur one to use quotes on that ad. I am assuming you will be saving air quotes for a separate chapter in this series!
I know; sometimes it seems so arbitrary! I guess they were going for emphasis? But that’s what bolding it is for!
I had my phone “repaired” once. It cost me a bloody fortune…….
Huh???
I hear you!
Too “funny”!
Hey now, are you implying this isn’t funny stuff?! lol
At least they’re not “air quotes” (you know, two fingers in the air on each hand as a person speaks).
Okay your post sparked mine.
Quotation mark misuses are definitely always “funny.”
*LOL* I love to use quotes myself and am often caught air quoting… I really should “fix” that.
I just wasn’t getting the quotation mark bit. I kept thinking the word repair was spelled wrong (like in French it’s reparer with no i). I am a bit maniacal about good grammar so when I didn’t catch the fault, I was worried that I was actually just dumb.
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