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Twitter seems an unlikely location for English language instruction, but turns out you can learn about grammar on Twitter and have you spelling corrected. Here is Theresa Lalonde.
If you think you don’t have to mind your “P”s and “Q”s when you’re on Twitter, you’re wrong. Grammar hardliners are on line too.
“You see a lot of crazy stuff.”
Alexandra Samuel loves words, as the director of the society media for Emily Car University. Samuel likes writing and reading online. But nothing gets her going like an extra comma.
“Why does it need to be comma there? And I mean, don’t think of me started on a lack of period. But this was that, I saw that, I just thought and I also just thought it’s just kind of funny.”
The message was still there, the message is still. It’s still asking us not to use paper towel unless it’s absolutely necessary.
“I have to admit, I really was not able to sort out the message, cuz I was so distracted by the bad grammar.”
Samuel took a picture of the sign she saw them at the bathroom of a local hotel and posted it to Twitter.
“I’m not gonna trust advice about saving the planet from the people who can’t even save the English language.”
Samuel also takes pictures of menus with bad grammar.
“People not seems realized food doesn’t taste good, if it hasn’t been punctuated properly.”
She highlights mistakes, but doesn’t score individuals. They’re a lot of online police doing that already. Grammar Cops who so reason to be on Twitter is to police others. And there’s Caps Cop where search engine find Twitters in all capital letters and sends them the message asking “Why are you shouting?”
If you join Twitter, you should know that everything you type is out there for anyone to see, so you’re up for public scrutiny.
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