Wednesday, January 28, 2009

papa grill, meet grammar 101

an email from an intrepid grammar friend regarding a local (and not particularly delicious) pita joint:

i won't go there any more not only because of their lack of deliciousness, but also their lack of smarts. or is it smart's?

Scrabble, you disappoint!


The much-loved game of readers, writers, and bookophiles, has a grammatical error in their instructions! Do they not proofread? I'm pretty sure that they have outsourced the production of their games to China, maybe they do the same for instruction-writing?
In related news, I heard that Scrabulous is back on Facebook. After settling a lawsuit with Scrabble makers Hasbro, Scrabulous is now "Lexulous." Read more here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99338221