Shockingly bad grammar

[Snafu03]

I'm usually the pedantic type for spelling, grammer etc. But as this little gem came from AOLs news section you'd expect it to be phrased by someone who knew a thing or two about the written word. Takes some re-reading to make sense of it;

'surrounded by empty medication blister packs and she had drunk a half drunk pint of cider.'

[aelmpvw]

not very pedantic about spelling grammer are you

[DTCwordfan]

Well said, aelmpvw.

Furthermore, it was comprehensible, more than can be said of some unpunctuated mini-essays that appear on here.

[KerrAvon]

what is grammer?

[NOX]

I had a shockingly bad Gramma- she was in the IRA ;-)

[Zeuhl]

kelsey grammer

very good in 'Frasier'

[aelmpvw]

grammer (sic)

[DTCwordfan]

something that you have to cram for at the last minute - and reluctantly, or something that you become when packing an over-full case.

[jno]

I think this isn't bad grammar, just bad editing. The writer has shuffled words around a bit and forgot to remove one of the "drunk"s. This is the sort of thing copy editors are supposed to pick up, but presumably if there were any they weren't doing their job properly.

You'll often spot typos on even the BBC website, especially in breaking stories that are published as soon as written, but they're usually corrected quickly.

[Eve]

Sorry for the random post but Nox that made me laugh :)

[maggiebee]

Examples of bad spelling, grammar etc are commonplace in my local rag and give you a good laugh. Friend was a proof reader in a past life and very few mistakes got through. Nowadays with spell checks etc it is commonplace. Recent report stated that "the young man darted across the road causing the driver to break sharply". Good job his name wasn't Humpty Dumpty.

[Quizmonkey]

Snafu03 - before criticising someone else's grammar, how about learning what an apostrophe is? And the difference between a semi-colon and a colon?