I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar: A Collection of Egregious Errors, Disconcerting Bloopers, and Other Linguistic Slip-Ups

The photographs of actual non-standard English is amusing, but I guess it was the wrong time of year for me to order it. i am a composition teacher in a community college, and I did not get the humor from it I thought I would. At the end of the semester, I am frustrated with even more eregious errors such as subject-verb agreements that I have marked over and over all semester and have observed little evidence of improvement in my students, so it is harder to make me laugh at extra apostrophes and inventeed contractrions. I was hoping for something that might make my students learn their mistakes by laughing, but at this point, not much will make a difference.There is nothing wrong with the book. It just did not do for me what I imagined. I am already overloaded with the topic. I will revisit the book at the beginning of next semester, perhaps with a fresh start. The students might be easier to amuze then as well, before the fatigue sets in both the class and teacher.Your degree of satisfaction with the book will depend on your purpose.

The author’s dedication page gave me a hint of the holier-than-thou tone of this book – “for my brother and sister, who are capable of far more than they know.” Ouch. What is that all about? I half expected that their postcards and letters home – with misspellings and “other linguistic slip-ups” - were going to be the focus of Nichols’ work. I used to correct my classmates’ valentines, so I understand that kind of nerdy and prissy compulsion. My manners and personal mortification keep me from publishing those documents.Nichols is unbound by that kind of decorum. The bulk of the book features spelling (mostly transposed and missing letters - less grammar than bad proofing) or unforced grammar errors (mostly punctuation) by average, nonprofessional people. I was more interested in mistakes by people and companies who should know better (see screen grab of NBC Nightly News) or deliberate acts of punctuation sabotage (see pic 2). We get a grammar bully instead of a grammarian or comedian. The former feels snarky; the latter two, instructive and funny. I also felt the production quality was weak. Many pictures are small or rendered virtually unreadable due to photographic glare. The cutlines are also in tiny, faint type.Initially interesting, but ultimately a tedious, unfortunate book.

This book was really funny, but I will say it's one of those books that you just keep in your house for your guests to look over and have a minute of laugh. The book consists of pictures from around the US where people have misspelled signs. They're funny, but for a one time read. It's like one of those books you look and read through while you're at Barnes & Noble, but don't actually buy.I bought this book for my best friend as a little X-Mas present because we're so picky about grammar mistakes. She enjoyed it, as a group we looked through it and laughed, but I doubt she picks it up often to look through.

Book was listed as "used" and when it arrived the entire first page had writing all over it. Again, it WAS described as used, but since I intended to give it as a gift, I couldn't and then had to get my niece something else. The book was still readable and I still gave it to her, it just wasn't in as good a shape as every other used book I've ever ordered from Amazon & e-bay.I just feel like if the entire first page is written on, that should be in your description in case someone is intending to give as a gift. no big deal, used books are used.

I tend to be a grammar stickler and I really enjoy books like this. It's fun to read, but too many of the photos center on misplaced apostrophes, and it would be more entertaining with a variety. By the way, when is someone going to put out a book spotlighting all those pricing errors, like those signs in the grocery stores that offer items for .99 cents (that's ninety-nine hundredths of a cent, folks -- less than a penny).

If it didn't have the tiny captions, it would seem much funnier. I think that this could reach a much larger group of people's 'funny bones' if it had larger font, on the captions, and if the captions explained what was wrong on ALL of the pictures.I purchased this for myself, It was a quick little book to read at the end of the day. The majority of the comedy is in the pictures. It was disappointing however, to see that half the pictures on the cover, didn't make it in to the book.Personally, if you are not buying a copy for 0.01$ it's not worth it.

This was a collection of photos ranging from 'meh' to laugh out loud funny.I get the feeling that there were plenty of spelling/grammar issues that were due to English being the signwriter's second language, which just feels petty. How many languages are you fluent in?Also, the commentary was (I'm guessing) supposed to be funny, but missed the mark every time.

I have a friend who writes best selling Non-Fiction. He tops the NYT Best Seller list for months with each new book he writes. I believe he has books translated in over 30 languages and has sold upwards of 8 million books world wide. I gave him this book, "I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar," for his birthday. He emailed me to say he laughed so hard his ribs hurt. So though I bought it, I didn't read it. The person who did- I would say has credibility, and loved it.

Hmmm

Boring, overpriced and partly unable to view photos on Kindle..

The book is great, I gave it to a friend for his Birthday! He loved it!The corners on the book were damaged slightly, but a great gift!

Excellent gift

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