Slog - Comments on Typo Hunt Comes to the Northwest

Comment by mnm

mnm — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:48:47 -0800

these people need to get laid or take up a drug habit

Comment by vooodooo84

vooodooo84 — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:51:27 -0800

this is graffiti that has no redeeming value, these people are just being judgmental assholes.

Comment by Hernandez

Hernandez — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:05:34 -0800

Oh, lighten up. This is a nice outlet for grammar freaks and it's not hurting anyone. If you had to spend large amounts of your working life correcting other people's hideous spelling and grammar, you'd get a kick out of this too.

Comment by brett

brett — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:07:38 -0800

WIL KIK NERD ASS 4 FOOD

Comment by RHETT ORACLE

RHETT ORACLE — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:08:17 -0800

Gillian: I cannot discern the difference between menu 1 and menu 2 - what is/was the error?

Comment by Lauren

Lauren — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:12:09 -0800

After all that, they missed a typo in picture 1 (grill should be capitalized). If you're going to be snarky, be thorough as well...

Comment by Catman

Catman — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:14:02 -0800

I'm joining!

Comment by Strath

Strath — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:21:36 -0800

My favorite typo (or at least sentence that could benefit from added punctuation) is the sign on the Jehovah's Witnesses' building in Brooklyn, right before you get on the Brooklyn Bridge:

READ GOD'S WORD THE HOLY BIBLE DAILY

Comment by NapoleonXIV

NapoleonXIV — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:21:58 -0800

Since Poe isn't here....

X-FILE'S! X-FILE'S!

Comment by Peter F

Peter F — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:22:21 -0800

My latest pet peeve is people who try to make a possessive out of "you guys" -- "your guys'" or "you guys'". Is it wrong to want to punch people who do this?

Comment by laterite

laterite — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:25:05 -0800

I supprot this.

Comment by elenchos

elenchos — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:44:51 -0800

@9 Quit hijacking the thread with your immature nonsense.

On-topic question: Should there really be a dash in "X-Files"?

Comment by Gitai

Gitai — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:49:31 -0800

At the 145th St exit, there was a sign that said, "Chid care. Opne 24 hours. DSHS excepted." My head nearly exploded.

Comment by City of Seattle - Guilty

City of Seattle - Guilty — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:10:11 -0800

There's a sign along the Burke Gilman (@ what would be about NE 82nd, if you extended the street through the sand point country club and fairway estates) from the Parks & Rec Dept that has a misspelled word. I don't remember the word, but this is my tip to them to go check it out. I briefly wondered if all similar signs from the Parks & Rec produced at about the same time had the same error, but couldn't be bothered to find out.

Comment by michael strangeways

michael strangeways — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:15:12 -0800

Delicous apples are a local variety in Portland...and they're damn testy!

Comment by bored

bored — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:16:55 -0800

As long as they stay away from the I.D. I'm cool with it.

Engrish should be accepted as it's own unique language that makes all of our lives better.

Comment by Dougsf

Dougsf — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:35:34 -0800

As a constant perpetuator of typos here on SLOG; these people are my nemeses(es? s'? SEE?).

Also, the first thing I noticed about their blog is a funky n- dash (bad spacing theirs).

Also also, to a degree, signage has to get a free pass - there's a variety of reasons one wouldn't follow the King's English to the letter when trying to communicate to passing cars, or when submitting type to an engraver, or broadcast a message to not only native English speakers.

This should be like Scrabble: If these guys confront you with a typo, but their challenge is substantiated, they lost a turn (finger).

Comment by Dougsf

Dougsf — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:39:15 -0800

Ha ha ha, I meant to say "UNsubstantiated". This is where I'd like to say "oh, the irony", but chances are better than not...

Comment by California

California — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:41:24 -0800

This had been bothering me for weeks. One of the ads for "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" proclaims "You suck Sarah Marshall." I do no such thing, but I may use a Sharpie to add a comma to the ad as I encounter it around town.

Comment by um

um — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:48:26 -0800

while we are correcting shit, that first picture cannot be in tacoma. tacoma's area code is 253 portland is the 503, and that restaurant is in portland.

Comment by Ash Grimm

Ash Grimm — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:53:47 -0800

Perhaps it was intentionally ironic or something, but the picture that Gillian labeled as "Corrected in Tacoma" is actually from Portland, as well.

This is evidenced by the (503) phone number, as well as by actually reading more than just the post title on the linked blog, which explains that the menu was from a burger stand that they stopped at in Portland before heading up to Tacoma.

Reading comprehension is as important as not making typos, methinks.

Comment by Ash Grimm

Ash Grimm — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:55:56 -0800

Doh, um at #20 beat me to it.

Comment by PdxRitchie

PdxRitchie — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:03:11 -0800

@20, 21, 22 Also, it's Rip City Grill, Tacoma is no Rip City. Portland is Rip City, so that 's another clue.

Comment by Mark at YVR

Mark at YVR — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:06:19 -0800

Send those people to Japan to correct all the English menus. They'll feel like kids in a candy store.

Comment by Bryce Beamish

Bryce Beamish — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:55:12 -0800

They should swing by In The Bowl noodle bistro...