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Oh, Dear Reader, you know these get me giggling! This garbled-English post is especially maddening because you can tell it would be useful if it were comprehensible. AND it’s accompanied by this photo, full of mystery objects:
I see a sleeping bag (I think) and tent stakes, a tripod, and what looks like a bowl of sugar… what fun!
Am I mean? I laugh so hard at these Babel-Fished posts that I cry. As you know, Dear Reader, I am a teacher, and I do so love correct grammar and word usage…
Get a load of this:
“Do you accept a weekend after annihilation to do or a weekend back you don’t appetite to do anything? I apperceive what I’d do. I would backpack up the barter and arch for the woods. Sitting by a affected blaze with your admired bodies solves abounding problems, so you shouldn’t delay too continued amid fires. My admired affair to do on a weekend is to camp. Are you attractive for an accessible way to camp? How about car camping? I adulation it!”
Well, if I were to “adulation” any sort of camping these days, it would be car camping, so I think I can agree with the enthusiasm here, if nothing else. Moreover, I do try not to “delay too continued amid fires.” I have a general policy about that sort of thing.
Read the whole lovely mess at this link.
You know I love these mangled-English, Babel-Fished-to-death posts. This one is poorly translated into British usage, adding yet another layer of fun. In a minute I’m going to really get jiggy with it and try to diagram a couple of these sentences. If only it rhymed, it would be as fun as Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky. AND I have the sneaking suspicion that there’s good, solid camping advice in there somewhere…
Note: If these posts vex you, DON’T read this one!
Okay, Dear Reader, so I haven’t admitted til now that I read the dictionary and diagram sentences for fun, but I do. (Not generally while on camping trips, though that would be sheer heaven for me….) But I’m not too, ummm, uptight in my own writing– see, I just started a sentence with a conjunction! And (another conjunction) I do feature posts with minor grammatical errors, although I spare you most of the poorly written junk I come across, as any loyal fan of the English language (or linguistics in general) would have to.
This, however, like one post so far back in the archives that even I don’t want to hunt for it, is soooo bad, it’s good. Laugh-out-loud funny for grammarians such as myself (a sentence fragment for you, to prove yet again that I’m a good-natured grammar-lover). AND it’s sexist (about the only meaning that shines through the gobbledygook).
If you enjoy this, in addition to tent camping, we’re kindred spirits.
Dear Reader, as I surf the net looking for quality camping posts for you to enjoy, I usually reject the poorly written ones, because I don’t want to offend your intelligence– and because there’s enough well-written stuff out there to make anyone happy. But this post, oh, this one… it’s written so poorly that I laughed out loud and woke my dear cat (who immediately started chewing on my important papers again in retaliation). I know it must have been written by someone for whom English is not the first language, so I’m basically making fun of someone by passing this along, but there you go.
Actually, I also usually avoid long camping “to do” lists because they make the whole thing seem so difficult that reading them takes the wind out of my sails. We all know that we need our own, personally-tailored lists and usually get them down to a science within a couple of trips, so why beat you about the head and neck with other people’s lists, no matter how well-written? There are literally thousands out there.
This, my dear reader, is a list of no fewer than 30 things to take into consideration, and is written so badly that actually I think it really sums up the frustration we can all feel sometimes when family tent camping trips go awry.
Here’s a tidbit for you: “Seasoned novices further beginners alike unreduced over the world every expedition enjoy the simplicity of camping.”
I’m still laughing! Go here, if you dare…
