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School is long since over, but a failed English exam keeps haunting you. But unlike most of us, some were born into this world with a rare love for commas, apostrophes, and missing letters. In fact, they don’t type—they write with fountain pens.
This tiny portion of humankind is known as the grammar junkies. And surprisingly, their sense of humor is so good, it’s addictive. After you see these language puns or spelling errors, you can't unsee them. Sooner than you know it, you'll join the gang laughing at homophones like it was Comedy Cellar. Scroll down through some of the best jokes down below and make your teacher proud.
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LoPandas 5 years ago
When you say "Yeah, right", It signals that you doubt what the person is saying (making it a negative)
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Susan Mercurio 5 years ago
Liucija and Justinas: I prefer to call myself "the grammar police."
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I love cats 5 years ago (edited)
I showed this to my little brother who loves writing and he was very offended
DancingToMyself 5 years ago
If you have any of your s**t, it's cool, you're going to have a lot more in your life span.
Bored Panda contacted Judy Yorke, the writing trainer at The Sentence Works, to find out more about what it's like being a grammar nerd. It turns out, there are some behavioral signs that reveal that you are one! “If you always check your texts to friends carefully before sending them in case there any errors,” it’s likely you’re a grammar junkie. “You’ll also know this is the case if your friends apologize to you for mistakes in WhatsApp messages—or if you wince at the missing apostrophe in the word WhatsApp!”
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I love cats 5 years ago
Imagine you actually have a uncle named jack who owns a horse and is bad at getting off it
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Batty 5 years ago
reminds me of when i was in third grade & my teacher said there were no words with three vowels in a row & i said, "really? that makes me anxious because a word like that would be beautiful." she hated me.
aLittleKillingJoke 5 years ago
in my language it's a vowel... is it a consonant to y'all cuz it can sound like "j", so you have to put "a" in front of y words? if anything, it must be both, yes? a lot of the time y sounds like an "i" rather than a "j" (yesterday = first y is a j, second y is an i)
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Mascha Claessens 5 years ago
Reminds me of the time we had to think of a word with the most vowels in a row in my language (Dutch), and I started thinking of a word with most of THE SAME vowels in a row. Came up with "zeeëend" / "zee-eend" (seaduck). Before 1996, zeeëend was the official spelling, now it's zee-eend, ad the hyphen somehow makes it less fun because it doesn't look like 1 word anymore... :P).
Catlady6000 5 years ago
I love how no one seems to doubt that a teacher could have said something so stupid
Batty 5 years ago
you clearly have no experience with the american public education system
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But language is never still, as it evolves with time, and grammar changes too. Judy explained: “For instance, many of us were told at school not to split infinitives and not to start a sentence with 'and' or 'but,'” she said. But “these are both rules I cheerfully break,” added the grammar pro.
At the same time, it’s fair to say that good grammar and punctuation make a piece of writing easier for the reader to understand and this is as true today as it ever was. “People care about mistakes because they are aware that errors can make them look unprofessional or sloppy,” said Judy. That’s especially true when writing an important formal letter or sending a resume to potential employers. Carelessness is never a welcome trait in the job market!
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Bob Belcher 5 years ago
Not grammar but along the same line; what's the only thing that gets bigger when you take away from it? I won't tell until someone ask and don't Google it.
Dilly Millandry 5 years ago
Go on then, what is it? It is too early for thinking right now!!
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Batty 5 years ago
lighten up. have you never heard the phrases past tense, present tense, & future tense before?
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Daria B 5 years ago (edited)
Meh, to me "period" refers to a certain time span. Dots that end a sentence are "full stops" , and the bleeding cycle thing is a "menstruation".
Malakai 5 years ago
Hear that whoosh? That's you, sucking the fun out of a joke.
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SanchaTheSeeker 5 years ago
You get your period for some days, it stops, but it will happen again next month
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Walter Brameld 5 years ago (edited)
This doesn't work because the presence or absence of quotation marks around "misspelled" removes the ambiguity. With them, it refers to the word; without them, it refers to the concept. As written above, without quotation marks, it's simply a false claim that there is a word in the sentence that is spelled incorrectly.
Purezz 5 years ago
that took me a while even looking through the comments
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Juan Carlos Flores Aqueveque 5 years ago
"misspelled" is a word within the sentence
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Vivek Upadhyay 3 years ago
Or perhaps they deserve a bat on their pack. Just sayin.
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Mascha Claessens 5 years ago (edited)
This one is kinda weak. That you guys don't PRONOUNCE the b, doesn't mean the old Romans didn't. ;-) Because it's Latin, as loads of English words are, 'subtilis'. In my language, we do pronounce the B in our version, 'subtiel'.
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Christopher Hawk 5 years ago
For the folks having trouble with this one, the irony is that the writer used the Oxford comma and thus missed the opportunity to joke about loving the Oxford comma, but not using it.
Grapeling 5 years ago
For the people who don't know: the Oxford comma is a comma that is placed after the 2nd item in a series. In this case "irony" is the 2nd item, and there is an Oxford comma, which is ironic because the writer hates Oxford commas... and irony
H Edwards 5 years ago
But it says three things I love, not three things I hate... I'm still confused.
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Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago
A good way to work it out is when you can't decide if you should use a comma or a full stop. You can usually put them together because it is semi-colon time.
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elia 84631 5 years ago
It's common to see semicolon as a quastion mask in greek and programming
tuzdayschild 5 years ago (edited)
I don't know what a quastion is but my ears love the way it sounds. Go ahead, say it.
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Carol Emory 5 years ago
Reminds me of the Tom any Jerry episode Texas Tom. The opening song. "I was strollin' down the trail the other day..when I met a purdy lady 'long the way. I said have we met before and she pulled her .44, so I tipped my hat and slowly rolled away. I was strollin' down the trail the other day..when I met a purdy lady 'long the way. I said 'Baby you're a dream,' she said 'touch me and I'll scream', so I tipped my hat and slowly rolled away."
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slackjack 5 years ago
For a post about grammar, there certainly are a lot of grammatical errors.
Freya the Wanderer 5 years ago (edited)
Graffiti seen in Atlanta: "Things I Hate 1. Vandalism 2. Lists 3. Irony"
Ben Steinberg 5 years ago
A women flies into Boston's Logan airport. She grabs her bags and gets into a taxi. "Take me somewhere where I can get scrod." The taxi driver turns around and tells her, "Lady, I've been driving a cab for twenty years and that's the first time I've heard that term used in the pluperfect subjunctive."
Chris DiFonso 5 years ago
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Luisa Vasconcelos 5 years ago
Grammar police meeting in only one article 😜. Nice post. Good challenge if it's not your mother language.
Chris DiFonso 5 years ago
These were brilliant...well, I didn't understand a few, nevertheless
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
Fun little post that shouldn't have had any typographical errors, considering the subject matter and intended readership.
tuzdayschild 5 years ago (edited)
One day, when people are all perfect, we'll fix that.
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GenXandEarnedItAll 5 years ago
Brother: "I brung it home from school." Ring, rang, rung: bring, brang, brung? "Mom! Me and Johnny jumped the ramp on our bikes!" Mom,, "No, honey. Its 'Johnny and I jumped the ramp on our bikes.'" Brother: But you weren't there. How do you know?
slackjack 5 years ago
For a post about grammar, there certainly are a lot of grammatical errors.
Freya the Wanderer 5 years ago (edited)
Graffiti seen in Atlanta: "Things I Hate 1. Vandalism 2. Lists 3. Irony"
Ben Steinberg 5 years ago
A women flies into Boston's Logan airport. She grabs her bags and gets into a taxi. "Take me somewhere where I can get scrod." The taxi driver turns around and tells her, "Lady, I've been driving a cab for twenty years and that's the first time I've heard that term used in the pluperfect subjunctive."
Chris DiFonso 5 years ago
With so many sporting events being cancelled, the World Origami Championship will be televised...on Paperview
Luisa Vasconcelos 5 years ago
Grammar police meeting in only one article 😜. Nice post. Good challenge if it's not your mother language.
Chris DiFonso 5 years ago
These were brilliant...well, I didn't understand a few, nevertheless
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
Fun little post that shouldn't have had any typographical errors, considering the subject matter and intended readership.
tuzdayschild 5 years ago (edited)
One day, when people are all perfect, we'll fix that.
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Brother: "I brung it home from school." Ring, rang, rung: bring, brang, brung? "Mom! Me and Johnny jumped the ramp on our bikes!" Mom,, "No, honey. Its 'Johnny and I jumped the ramp on our bikes.'" Brother: But you weren't there. How do you know?
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