Categories: uncategorized
Date: 10 December 2007 12:22:03
1. Verbing of nouns (hehehe)
2. Abuse of apostrophes. Overuse or neglect.
3. "Which" instead of "that". Yet I couldn't explain why one is right and the the other is wrong. I just know. Possibly because I used to be guilty of this offence and my year 11/12 English teacher crossed out every single "which" in my written work and replaced it with "that". In red.
4. Hyphens. My yoghurt contains Award Winning Milk. Apparently. Actually it contains Dairy Farmers Award Winning Milk. Who can spot the two problems with that sentence?
5. inappropriate Capitalisation of random Words.
6. Your vs you're vs yaw vs yore... and they're vs there vs their...
7. The absence of semi-colons. And why can't the keyboard manufacturers switch the shift options so that colon doesn't need shift and semi-colon does. Colon is now used much more frequently than semi-colon.
8. Text-speak in contexts other than text messages.
Stay tuned for spelling crimes sometime soon.