6. Spell Checker
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques for my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As swoon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
7. But Ms. Vroom, these are just mistakes
due to technology. Real people
wouldn’t ever make such terrible
mistakes in trying to convey meaning,
right?
8. I recently saw this on a sign at a burger
restaurant in Nashville:
We don't just serve hamburgers, we serve
people.
One might find the following sign in a
residential neighborhood:
"Slow children at play."
9. Other silly signs
• In a New York restaurant: Customers who
consider our waitresses uncivil ought to see
the manager.
• In the window of a Kentucky appliance store:
Don't kill your wife. Let our washing machine
do the dirty work.
• In the window of an Oregon store: Why go
elsewhere and be cheated when you can
come here?
10. Poorly Worded Ads
• Lost: small apricot poodle. Reward. Neutered.
Like one of the family.
• Dinner Special -- Turkey $2.35; Chicken or Beef
$2.25; Children $2.00.
• For sale: an antique desk suitable for lady with
thick legs and large drawers.
• Four-poster bed, 101 years old. Perfect for
antique lover.
• Now is your chance to have your ears pierced and
get an extra pair to take home, too.
11. Ok fine, but as long as you get the
right words in there, punctuation
doesn’t matter.
Or does it?
12. Punctuate the following sentence:
A woman without her man is nothing.
Men might write it like this:
A woman, without her man, is nothing.
But women will always prefer it this way:
A woman: without her, man is nothing.
13. Letter Activity
The punctuation has disappeared from this
letter. Find a partner and see if the two of you
can fix it so that its recipient will understand the
intended message.
14. Dear John…
Dear John:
I want a man who knows what love is all about.
You are generous, kind, thoughtful. People who
are not like you admit to being useless and
inferior. You have ruined me for other men. I
yearn for you. I have no feelings whatsoever
when we're apart. I can be forever happy--will
you let me be yours?
Gloria
15. Or is it this way?
Dear John:
I want a man who knows what love is. All about
you are generous, kind, thoughtful people, who
are not like you. Admit to being useless and
inferior. You have ruined me. For other men, I
yearn. For you, I have no feelings whatsoever.
When we're apart, I can be forever happy. Will
you let me be?
Yours, Gloria
