Cato's Grammar Grumble

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Well, I got it from Amazon. Do they traffic in bootlegs, do we suppose?

I have no idea--who was the seller?  Amazon themselves?  I was just joking thinking that you had found a photo of that movie.  It did look like there were words in a foreign language at the bottom of the cover.  No idea which language it is.  Perhaps Chinese?  Which is why I thought that it might be a bootleg from somewhere overseas...that and the two misspellings.

Or perhaps just bad and lazy quality control by the art department (or those in charge)?

PD

[Karl Henning]

I have no idea--who was the seller?  Amazon themselves?  I was just joking thinking that you had found a photo of that movie.  It did look like there were words in a foreign language at the bottom of the cover.  No idea which language it is.  Perhaps Chinese?  Which is why I thought that it might be a bootleg from somewhere overseas...that and the two misspellings.

Or perhaps just bad and lazy quality control by the art department (or those in charge)?

PD

Seemed to be direct from Amazon. Korean, I think. Your eye is correct, in descrying potential bootleg tipoffs.

[Karl Henning]

Lousy English in memes is also shooting fish in a barrel, but I cannot help sharing: You're a 80's rock star and your names is ....

[Pohjolas Daughter]

As suggested by our DavidW:

When trying to find out a bit more about the two sisters and the son who had passed away in Colorado, I stumbled across this sweet story:

'The genesis of this year's Cat Fest is a typo.

Former co-founder and co-owner of the Denver County Fair Dana Cain was doing an interview in 2015 in which she mentioned the "kitchen pavilion" as a fair event. The reporter accidentally printed "kitten pavilion," and Cain had no choice but to locate some cats.

"They printed we had a kitten pavilion," Cain said. "So I said 'OK well, we have to do it!'"

More here:

https://gazette.com/arts-entertainment/cat-fest-shangri-la-for-all-things-feline/article_9df8e3ca-2672-11ee-81fa-ebd9484db2ef.html

PD

[Florestan]

Started reading this:



(actually, the original French version). Before beginning it, I told myself that a tetralogy purporting to portray Mozart as the reincarnation of Osiris (sic!) is bound to contain factual errors in the same way Dan Brown's sensationalist novels do. And lo and behold!, in chapter Two of Jacq's book we read that Leopold Mozart vacillated, for his newly born son's name, between "the Latin Theophilus and the German Gottlieb". Now, of course Theophilus is Greek, not Latin, albeit with the termination latinized from -os to -us; the correct Latin is, well... Amadeus.

This promises to be a long but entertaining read. 

[Karl Henning]

Started reading this:



(actually, the original French version). Before beginning it, I told myself that a tetralogy purporting to portray Mozart as the reincarnation of Osiris (sic!) is bound to contain factual errors in the same way Dan Brown's sensationalist novels do. And lo and behold!, in chapter Two of Jacq's book we read that Leopold Mozart vacillated, for his newly born son's name, between "the Latin Theophilus and the German Gottlieb". Now, of course Theophilus is Greek, not Latin, albeit with the termination latinized from -os to -us; the correct Latin is, well... Amadeus.

This promises to be a long but entertaining read. 

So long as you're having fun!

[Florestan]

So long as you're having fun!

Well, in 1756 an Egyptian monk by the name of Thamos, Count of Thebes is sent by his superior, abbot Hermes of the Saint-Mercury monastery, to the Northern lands (read Vienna) to search for, look after, and guide, the Great Magician who will be born there as Osiris reincarnated. As it turns out, that newborn is Mozart. Ain't it fun? 

[Wendell_E]

Not really grammar, just let's-stick-in-any-old-word-that's close-to-what-we-actually-mean, from a bill I received from my dentist's office yesterday"

Your account is past due and is now occurring interest

I only had the work done on July 11, a little over a month ago. They usually charge me my part at the time of service, but this was the first time they'd contacted by about my whopping $25.00 balance. But using "occurring" instead of "accruing" was what irritated me most. 

I know it's just a computer-generated form, but I wrote them with my payment and told them they might want to use a better one.

[JBS]

I just learned from CNN that space vehicles (in this case, a Russian mission to the moon) don't crash on landing.

They collide with the surface.

[AnotherSpin]

I just learned from CNN that space vehicles (in this case, a Russian mission to the moon) don't crash on landing.

They collide with the surface.

Typical Russophobia.

[Cato]

Started reading this:



 Two of Jacq's book we read that Leopold Mozart vacillated, for his newly born son's name, between "the Latin Theophilus and the German Gottlieb". Now, of course Theophilus is Greek, not Latin, albeit with the termination latinized from -os to -us; the correct Latin is, well... Amadeus.

This promises to be a long but entertaining read. 

I am reminded of later Christian names in Latin, e.g. Deusdedit (God gave (Life to me), Adeodatus (Given by God), and )my favorite) Quodvultdeus (Whatever God wants, or possibly Because God wants (it)...or both!  In later Latin, the former is more likely the intention.)

I have no more time right now, but bad grammar/stupid phrasing/very bad spelling right now can be found too often!

[Karl Henning]

We all make the odd slip-up, but I cannot help but feel that the BBC should do better, this is a header:

When did What was Michael Praetorius become an organist?

[Karl Henning]

Neuroscientist beg people play [name of game.]

[Cato]

Oh my!   A few minutes to recall so many terrible things seen and heard in the past months!  😇

One of my favorites was at one of America's surviving department stores in North Carolina, in which store a door had the following sign:

Keep this Area Clare! 

Given the mangled pronunciation sometimes found south of the Ohio River, one can somewhat understand the mistake.  😇


I was tempted to add a comma after the word "area."   


Found in a fast-food restaurant's rest room for Men, again in a state south of the Ohio River, although grammar is not necessarily the issue:


NOTICE!  When you "P," please do so in the toilet water, rather than on the seat, the floor, the walls, or any other place.  We want to keep this room clean."


One would like to read "into" and "onto," but obviously another matter dominates here!    


A local politician looking for re-election spoke on television about why people should vote for him: sadly, his twisted tongue and general gobbledygook did not prevent him from winning.

e.g. "We gotta get the generations to sit so, you know, they gotta have sit together and so, you know, we gotta get to everybody, to sit and come some ideas that are gotta be our future here."

Later we heard things e.g. "shoulda went" and "I seen" and "got brung up."


Oh well, maybe he can speak well enough to have the streets fixed!   


 

[Bachtoven]

Until fairly recently, bananas were "25 cents the each" at Target. They finally dropped "the" from their sign.

[Cato]

Until fairly recently, bananas were "25 cents the each" at Target. They finally dropped "the" from their sign.

Terrible price, terrible English!  😇

[Bachtoven]

Terrible price, terrible English!  😇

Really? That's the lowest price in my town! In fact, they have probably gone up a bit since it's been at least a year since they changed the sign!

[Pohjolas Daughter]

As suggested by our DavidW:

@Cato,

I liked her can-do attitude. 

PD

[Cato]

When trying to find out a bit more about the two sisters and the son who had passed away in Colorado, I stumbled across this sweet story:

'The genesis of this year's Cat Fest is a typo.

Former co-founder and co-owner of the Denver County Fair Dana Cain was doing an interview in 2015 in which she mentioned the "kitchen pavilion" as a fair event. The reporter accidentally printed "kitten pavilion," and Cain had no choice but to locate some cats.

"They printed we had a kitten pavilion," Cain said. "So I said 'OK well, we have to do it!'"

More here:

https://gazette.com/arts-entertainment/cat-fest-shangri-la-for-all-things-feline/article_9df8e3ca-2672-11ee-81fa-ebd9484db2ef.html

PD

@Cato,

I liked her can-do attitude. 

PD

Yes, I think that would be termed "cattitude"!      

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Yes, I think that would be termed "cattitude"!      

  The ancient Egyptian gods were smiling upon her; she helped to get cats adopted!

PD