From the L Magazine. Some are actually just unfortunate art, but the whole list was worth it for this one:
In addition to the usage error, I particularly like how the highlights on the drops of blood seem to be made by a light shining *up* from the lower right.
Okay, and this next one is almost certainly a quadruple play:
Representing the Humanities at Accepted Students Day.
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Today's young people live in a very auditory culture -- they don't pass notes in class, they text each other according to phonetic shorthand, so they are used to writing according to how a word sounds. I think that's the main reason for "should of" instead of "should have" or similar sound-alike mistakes. But I very rarely encounter a student who simply cannot make the transition between informal phonetic shorthand and polished collegiate prose. (It just takes time and practice.)
It saddens me that people can be so terribly educated in the grammar of the english language that simple differences between "its" and "it's" are completely forgotten. And so often do I see "your" and "you're" mixed up that I want to kill someone when I hear them make such a mistake. A mate of mine got a leg tattoo recently that had a quote from a band called the Maine. It should have read "Fresh 'Til Death." Unfortunately the artist was such an idiot that when he designed it, he spelled it "Fresh Till Death." Unfortunate.
I went with a friend in high school to a tattoo parlor. She wanted one on her back. I held her hand the whole time as she cried herself senseless. Not that I ever wanted one anyway, but that was the anti-tattoo for me. Perhaps we should market a grammar book for tattoo artists and sneak it into a magazine or something.
I suppose it just puts things in perspective -- reminding me that some people would rather sit still while a stranger repeatedly pokes their skin with a needle, rather than look in a grammar book to refresh their memory of the "its/it's" distinction. Couldn't they look at the grammar book while the artist is doing the blood drops? I mean, what else can they do while they're lying there on the table?
Oh my, how annoying is that? Too bad tattoos (and spelling errors) are forever.