Show Me the Grammar!
Saw an AP article (to which I will not link, and from which I will not quote, due to the AP being a bunch of RIAA-style fuckweasels) discusses the newly-redesigned Missouri license plate, complete with grammatical error.
Missouri is the Show-Me state. Show-Me in that context needs a hyphen, however the plate has no hyphen. Officials with the state don’t plan to correct the error, even on future plates, since “That’s the way it looked when it won an online contest last year.”
Great answer. The online voting public approved it, so that’s good enough for you? Nice. I bet you’d be reissuing some plates pretty quickly if they were found to contain a secret pro-choice message, or a subliminal penis illustration. But proper grammar? That’s for pussies.
Hmmm… I wonder if there’s any link between that kind of attitude and this kind of report about our state’s educational system?
Filed under: pedantry, the feck? |Missouri’s underperformance in educating its young population could limit the state’s access to a competitive workforce and weaken its economy over time. Missouri continues to trail leading states in preparing students for higher education and enrolling them in college directly after high school.
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If anything wants proof - Big Brother is now on it’s 8th? 9th? series over here and people are still watching it. Morons watching self-obsessed morons. Amazing.