The pedant in me: Facebook UK Fail

For a company recently valued at $3.7 billion, I would expect their employees to have better grammar. Such a rich IT company should have the resources to check the language in their interfaces with more than just spell check (the bare minimum for any work in English produced or parsed on a computer).




Screenshots taken from http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Gates/502040841 at SGT 9:42 PM Monday, May 18, 2009

The pedant in me: Speaking good English != Writing good English

Let me first qualify my post by saying that I do not speak nor write perfect English.

Of all places I found this at an exhibition at the Central Public Library (Bugis). On top of that, there were "Speak good English, yes I can" (can't remember the exact words) flag banners (sorry, no pic) outside the library adding to the irony. Or maybe the banners were literal (see post title).

The pedant in me: Where are the figures?

Where are figures 1 and 2? I thought that when one puts "figure 1" it means that there exists a figure labelled 1? Or are we to infer that the figures are implicitly labelled? I am more inclined to believe that this is the result of copypasta without checking what one typed/pasted, and the editor not catching this error.


Source: Straits Times

The pedant in me: RM60,000 == SG81,000?!

Such a glaring mistake, simply unacceptable coming from the national broadsheet. Since the source is Malaysian, I suppose it's the news people in Straits Times who added the currency conversion thing.


Source: Straits Times