Bikini ready? No, my bikini isn’t ready, and my body isn’t bikini-ready. And this feature on the Yahoo! front page isn’t hyphen-ready:
Octomom’s brood stymies writer
January 26, 2011 — LauraThose folks writing for the Yahoo! front page just don’t get it. When they’re not omitting hyphens, they’re sticking them in where they don’t belong:
Here’s the scoop: If the phrase uses the word years (note the plural), it doesn’t have hyphens.
Write your own movie preview!
July 26, 2010 — LauraYou know more about cinema than those hacks who write for Yahoo! Movies. And they agree! That’s why they’ve given you the opportunity to write a summary of a movie. You get to describe the story and add three reasons to see it.
Oh, while you’re at it, you might want to remove the apostrophe in LDRs.
Who’s the cool jerk?
October 7, 2009 — LauraThe writer for Yahoo! TV‘s “Primetime in No Time” seems to think the song by The Capitols was actually a question:
But he doesn’t stop with just a misplaced question mark. There’s the missing cap in Tom DeLay, the incorrect verb was (which should be were), and the over-hyphenated overqualified:
But other than that, it’s all cool.
We got your costumes right here
October 6, 2009 — LauraWe got your costumes for women. Your costumes for men. And your costumes for one kid.
Source: Yahoo! front page
Crazy adventure in writing
October 6, 2009 — LauraThe writer on Yahoo! Movies set off on a crazy adventure of typos and missing letters:
From the incorrectly hyphenated prewar and extramarital:
to the erroneous use of a hyphen after an adverb ending in LY:
the writer treats us to a crazy adventure in writing.
It’s not yours
October 4, 2009 — LauraI’m actually shocked — shocked I tell you! — by the use of an apostrophe in the pronoun yours:
Thanks to Yahoo! Profiles for showing me a new low in writing mistakes; I had actually never seen a error like this before.
Fashion blunders, celeb missteps, and a nude show
October 1, 2009 — LauraImagine a journalist whose beat is celebrity style and fashion who makes a fashion blunder by misspelling Dolce & Gabbana:
Or creates a celeb misstep with a misspelled Kristin Chenoweth:
and Christina Applegate:
That’s what you’ll find in this article on Yahoo! Shine‘s The Thread. But that’s not all.
Wow! Apparently when the writer isn’t crushing fashion brands and celebrity names, she’s attending nude shows:
Better she should be writing about patients’ rights and a benefit for Cedars-Sinai:
If I were this writer, my face would be red. Or maybe fuchsia:
Please don’t do your kid’s English homework
September 30, 2009 — LauraI don’t think the writer of this teaser on Yahoo! Shine should be doing her kid’s homework, especially English homework:
Who’ll sign up to see one person’s photos?
September 29, 2009 — LauraGolly, this is really enticing. Sign up for Yahoo! Personals and you, too, can see photos from one person:
Makes sense, since it is a single person! Ha-ha. I crack myself up sometimes. Yahoo! front page cracks me up, too, when I see errors like that one.
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