I can hardly wait to share the typos from South Beach, but sometimes a once-in-a-lifetime grammar gaffe presents itself and immediately elbows its way to the front of the queue.
What is wrong with this? Young pre- and early-literate girls are addicted to anything Disney princess-related. Heck...I think even Dooce's precious Leta has succumbed to the lure of anatomically-impossible, doe-eyed, multicultural babes in tiaras. By the way, I KNOW her name is Heather and not Dooce, but if I said Heather, no one would know who I was talking about. [Note to Haley: I know it ended with a preposition, but it was in the interest of sounding conversational and not stilted.] These breastiful babes are contributing to the decline of the language and the inevitable acceptance of LOL, BTW, kul, luv u, etc. into the Oxford English Dictionary.
I think this calls for a contest!!! Leave a comment pointing out the grammatical faux pas and you will be immediately entered to win a copy of one of the following (please indicate in your comment which book you would like to receive and I will give both of them away...the second one WITH GLEE):
The deadline for entering is Sunday, April 20 at midnight. The winners will be announced (unless I get otherwise distracted) on Monday, April 21.
You get an extra entry if you refer someone else who enters and mentions you in his/her comment. You get still ANOTHER entry if you link to my contest on your blog (be sure to let me know you did it so you get credit.)
Di
P.S. That last paragraph has a hint in it!!!
P.P.S. If Disney gets wind of this, I'm sure I will be asked to pull the image down. I put a link to their site in it. But if anyone can tell me how to link directly to their site and still get the image to show up, then I think I can't be accused of illegally copying their image and maybe I can leave it up.
Should be "Click Each Princess to Enter Her Magical World." I would have excused it if there had been both princes and princesses and they wanted to avoid the "his/her" thing, but this was an easy fix! Now I suppose there's a chance they meant "their magical world" as in "the world that all princesses share," but I doubt it.
Since you hated Eat, Pray, Love and I love listening to Maureen Corrigan on NPR, please enter me to win that one.
Posted by: Karen | April 13, 2008 at 09:29 AM
P.S. See this: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=26
Posted by: Karen | April 13, 2008 at 09:32 AM
I am not the least bit surprised that Karen was first to enter. She is my grammatical guru, my literate lover, my English empress, my punctuation princess...she rocks. So please take a moment and visit her at:
http://verbatim.blogs.com/
Posted by: Di | April 13, 2008 at 09:37 AM
The link is utterly irrelevant since everyone knows that they speak Canadian up there, not English. Well, maybe not. But my son disdainfully reminded me that "Hola mamacita!" was MEXICAN, not CUBAN!!!!
:)
Posted by: Di | April 13, 2008 at 09:39 AM
should be "her" not "their"...GRRRRR
If I win "Eat Pray Love", throw it at the wall and give it to someone else!!!
Posted by: JoAnn | April 13, 2008 at 10:30 AM
It should be "HER magical world", not THEIR magical world
Posted by: haley | April 13, 2008 at 10:36 AM
Ok, I knew it before I read all the comments, but yes, HER magical world. You aren't entering ALL OF THEIR magical worlds with one click.
I would like the first book, please. I can borrow the second from my sister-in-law, and I'm not sure its a book I'd like to OWN.
Posted by: raych | April 13, 2008 at 11:55 AM
Another vote for "her" instead of "their" since "each princess" is singular and I'm assuming Disney doesn't have any drag queens in the lot. :)
Posted by: pussreboots | April 13, 2008 at 07:14 PM
HER instead of THEIR.
Posted by: Tara R | April 13, 2008 at 07:43 PM
"Click Each Princess to Enter Her Magical World."
Posted by: Timothy Sternberg | April 13, 2008 at 11:06 PM