Grammar shirts
June 2nd, 2007, 9:54 pm · 2 Comments · posted by Sam Mittelsteadt
The other day I was talking to a friend online and tried my hardest to write it in standard online form. You know, "i think im good 2go" — no capitals, punctuation only when deemed ultimately necessary. And I just couldn’t do it. It’s hard-wired into my system, the capital letters, two spaces after a period. So I found myself typing, then going back and … basically anti-correcting? Lowercasing things, swapping out "4" for "for" and the like.
And my friend finally said, "You know I can see what you’re typing keystroke by keystroke, right? It’s not like you have to hit ’send’ or anything." (Well, actually his sentence started with "u kno," but you get the picture.)
Anyway, this shirt makes me happy:
It’s the sort of shirt I would love to wear, except it would make all of my friends even more afraid to send me e-mails for fear I was, well, judging them. And, it just opens you up to grief the first time you get it wrong yourself.
I found it thanks to the blog Celebrity Hijinx, which had it sandwiched in among all the "news" about Lindsay Lohan and her ilk. If you like the shirt, it’s available here for $12.99.
In fact, they have two other styles, too. Click on either to see larger and/or order:











June 5th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
I want one! That is my biggest pet peeve these days. Grown adults who purposefully dumb themselves down with their inane online grammar. Is it the coolest new thing to look as dumb as possible? I know it’s “hawt” with the teenage set; but please I beg you, if you’re over 21 could you type like a normal human being?
July 25th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
That may be why I am scared of you.