Tee Potty Protest Sines

Awww Mango,

Now you know that all of those folks with dem' mizpelled words are Democrat plantz......

There grammer and spellin is not much diffrent than most of the peopl on this bored. I thiinks it is on porpoise.

Whatever the Tea Party movement's merits, their protest signs don't always present themselves well. To promote clearer political discourse, we've offered some free copyediting.

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PROBLEM: Homophone confusion, extraneous hyphen. SOLUTION: To communicate first-person plural possession, use the pronoun 'our' instead of the verb 'are.'

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PROBLEM: 'Excetions' is not a word. SOLUTION: Use actual words. Punctuation can also be helpful in conveying meaning.

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PROBLEM: 'Hugh' is a rather common first name, thus the meaning of the sign is unclear. SOLUTION: Include a surname, such as 'Grant,' 'Hefner,' or 'Jackman,' so that a reader of the sign will know exactly which Hugh to which you are objecting.



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PROBLEM: Missing letters in 'extremey' and 'amesty.' 'A' should be 'an.' SOLUTION: Tighter border security could prevent illegal immigrants from stealing American consonants.

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PROBLEM: 'Feedom' could indeed be a coinage to describe the domain of payments for services, but then of course the proposition 'Feedom isn't free' would be tautological. SOLUTION: To craft a moving rhetorical device, add an 'r' to spell 'freedom.' A helpful hint is located in the root word 'free,' which is located farther down the sign.

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PROBLEM: 'Your' is a possessive pronoun. A closer examination reveals that someone edited the sign with a pencil, correctly replacing 'your' with the contraction 'you're.' SOLUTION: Carry an orange highlighter with you at all times so that your edits will be more visible.

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PROBLEM: 'CERTiFieT' is misspelled and contains nonstandard capitalization. The question also lacks a verb, and the interrogative adverb 'where' is misplaced in both instances. SOLUTION: The patriotic attire is a good start, but if you really want to prevent others from doubting your country of origin, try asking, 'Where is Obama's birth certificate?' rather than, 'Birth CERTiFieT where Obama where?'.

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PROBLEM: 'Competnce.' SOLUTION: If English is not your strong suit, try using smaller words and less grammatically complex sentences. For instance, this sign would have imparted the very same message if it had simply read, 'Obama is bad.'

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PROBLEM: An examination of the historical record finds that Congress has never been peeled in the first place. SOLUTION: Replacing 'repeel' with 'repeal,' while failing to create a prescription that could be enacted within any existing legal framework, would at least convey something closer to a meaningful concept.

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PROBLEM: 'Infromed.' SOLUTION: Whatever the merits of Fox News may be, it is no substitute for a dictionary.



Comment: It's extremely hard to take these Tea Party people seriously when their signs reflect so poorly on their basic command of the English language. The Other 95% showed up at the Washington, D.C. rally with a great sign and with no errors:

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The Other 95% had no errors in their facts either, something else the Tea Partiers are woefully guilty of. The Obama stimulus bill provided an $800 family tax credit and federal income taxes are at historic lows as indicated by this chart:

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Well, we wouldn't want facts to get in the way of a good rant.


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I note, with interest, your expression of the lack of intelligence and spelling ability among the Tea Party attendees. It is nice to know you find all so stupid. Talk about stereotyping and profiling. You and others have it down to an art.
I also note that your "thanks" are by nearly every liberal on the board. That is good for it means they must be aware of what the real intent of what the Tea Party is all about.

I note, with interest, your expression of the lack of intelligence and spelling ability among the Tea Party attendees. It is nice to know you find all so stupid. Talk about stereotyping and profiling. You and others have it down to an art.
I also note that your "thanks" are by nearly every liberal on the board. That is good for it means they must be aware of what the real intent of what the Tea Party is all about.

So what you are saying is that these are actually Tea Partiers and not infiltrators from the Right or Left!

Scary.....but not really, considering the typos and missssspellings that we see in forums from folks on the Farrrrr Right and the Farrrrr Left and in the Middle....

Lighten up, Andy. It could have been any type of protest, political or not, that warranted some humor about the basic lack of comprehension of the English language by some Americans. I did not write it. It was on the Christian Science Monitors web site.