Sunday 18 November 2007

Chikcen and Vetables

and no, that's not a misprint. well, it is, just deliberate. it's rather entertaining to hear people's opinions on non-English speaking people in Australia. Some say they shouldn't be allowed, but i love it the way it is. i very much enjoy the funny mistakes seen on packaging, on TV, and on shop walls. a perfect example is those seen whilst driving through Newtown. 'we sell candle, toy, ect.' its often small things, like a missed plural or 'ect', but they're still very funny. last night in a restaurant there was the item 'chikcen and vetable', which was rather funny, particularly as every other time those words were in the menu they were fine! if you're unfortunate enough to not experience these little typos of joy, may i recommend www.engrish.com which is a wonderful collection of these things.
so if you ask me, multiculturalism is not only healthy for the country and economy, but it brings large amounts of harmful, and rather humourous entertainment!

Friday 16 November 2007

Have you left your watch or valuAbles behind?

Typos drive me insane. I despise them. More than corey the party guy who i'll attack some other time. And what confuses me the most is how the people who make these signs or labels or whatever can make such stupid errors!!! My family runs an engraving business from home, and mistakes do happen. However, words such as 'attendent' and 'valubles' just drive me mad. It stands out, or maybe it's just me. After all, these things probably only annoy nerds. But being a nerd is awesome. There's nothing wrong with it, we just have different interests. Big whoop! Deal with it! Besides, what would the world be without us?! Exactly! And you'd all miss conversations about whether or not carbon is a metal!! I think i was wrong about it though. Dang. (Don't worry if this doesn't make sense! =) )