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

By Sharon Eliza Nichols

Correct grammar and proper spelling can be a challenge, and their absence can be a source of gleeful humor to everyone but the victim of a bad grammar attack. How do you react to sandwich boards, road signs, laminated instructions, and other written missives that are just not exactly what their creator meant? If you've ever (gently) judged anyone else for their linguistic failures, if you find yourself guffawing about the frequent confusion between "incontinence" and "inconvenience," if you've ever been tempted to whip out your marker to add in or cross out apostrophes, and if you've refused to answer e-mails in which "your" and "you're" are used interchangeably, this book is for you. With pictures culled from the Facebook group by the same name, I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar is a hilarious and eye-opening tour through restaurants and shops, through parking lots and along winding roads, and around the world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
• Release date: Mar 18, 2014
• ISBN: 9781429991667

Sharon Eliza Nichols

Sharon Eliza Nichols created the Facebook group I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar, which boasts more than 430,000 members and 8,000 photos of misspelled and ungrammatical signs. Sharon has been featured in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and lives in Charleston, S.C.

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Reviews for I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar

[murderbydeath · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

So, here's the thing: this is a cute, funny compilation of pictorial examples of bad grammar from around the world. I laughed out loud out more than a few of them. But I found a grammar error in one of the photo captions. On page 96 ("Exhibits like sightseeing as much everyone else."). Oops.

[wanderlustlover_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Hilarious. Utterly. Completely. Hilarious.

This is a book of pictures, made and taken and published by a facebook community, that documents all sorts of signs from all over the world and English errors people have found. Then they add a caption at the bottom. I spent so much of this one laughing out loud.

It's become the new living room table book.

Everyone seems to love it who's noticed it, too.

[lisamorr · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I didn't like this one very much - a book full of photographs showing errors in public signs, which by itself would be amusing to a degree. But the author decided to explain the error in each sign - DUH, I don't need the explanation and why would anyone who would buy a title like this? Now, if it was in the educational section, it would be appropriate, but not for this book.

[pdebolt_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This collection of road signs, restaurant notices and other postings is humorous and yet disturbing to those of us who value the correct usage of the English language. Unfortunately, those who need to read it won't be interested, leaving those of us who read it even more frustrated.

[spoonbridge · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

There were certainly a few laughs to be had in this short, quickly digested little book griping about the sorry state of modern grammar (at least as illustrated through photographs of signs, postings, and other public announcements mangling the English language to various degrees). I won't give any specific examples so as to avoid spoiling the books best points; on the other hand, the author certainly seems to be particularly upset by the improper use of apostrophes, an error (while galling) that doesn't really lend itself to hilarity. The photos depicting these atrocities are nice, but all too often are quite small, surrounded by a blank white page. The collection definitely shows its origins as a blog, in which viewers can expand images to view details that might be lost if printed too small and which can also make up for less funny entries via sheer variety. "I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar" the book, in the end, might be good for a half an hour or so of minor amusement, but would not be recommend as a purchase.

[nielsengw_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Grammar mistakes are everwhere, ranging from misplaced apostrophes to downright unacceptable translations. Nichols started a group on Facebook to collect photos of all these hideous mistakes, and now has published a collection of the worst offenders. Most common among the errors are the ubiquitous grocer's apostrophes ("apple's" or "grape's"), implying an unintended possessive. More disheartening are the spelling mistakes made on semi-permanent road signs ("Avanue" is a favorite). This book brings to light all the ways in which people around the world torture the language. It's worth many a laugh.