More props for TypoInColombo, this time from @indica. And he couldn’t resist putting up a lovely typo that he spotted at Delifrance in Colombo. We think it’s the chef’s fake French accent. Check out his take on typos, funny signs, WTFs and the clever use of social media (cough) here.
Sri Lankan education keeping up with the times. Never mind the ‘riding ass’ jokes. From a text book for six-year olds at a girls’ school in Colombo. Via @deshan10.
No truer words have been uttered about Sri Lanka and its society. A sign of the times. 100 bucks to the 1st tuk tuk that says: ‘Zeitgeist Express’. Via @HalikAzeez.
An X-rating for the UNP website? Via @gopiharan Someone forgot to fix the caption. A common enough problem in print. Also underscores the challenges facing the successful fusing of traditional print with digital. Ok, we’ll get off the pulpit now. A Google search for the real thing was not much help. Oh, well.
Education #FAIL. Iggits. “How can you expect proper GCE A/L results when ‘independant’ is spelled like this?” asks @nuzster, who spotted this glorious typo in the Daily Mirror.
We have thought long and hard about this and are none the wiser. How could they have got the word ‘whale’ right in the 2nd line and wrong in the 1st? And they get ‘watching’ right in the 1st instance and wrong in the 2nd. Oh, the humanity … Via @blessie_k.
“WTF!?” you say. We hear you. That’s ‘grater’, not ‘greater’. Is the confusion greater or the typo greater? asks @Sal_D_Man, who spotted this at Keells Super in Kohuwala. The jury is still out on this beauty.
Nothing quite like sipping a ‘wishky’ or a ‘Henness’ and smoking a Benson & ‘Hedg’ with your mates. There is also ‘Vanila la milk shakes’ for teetotalers. This is from the drinks list at Palm Beach Hotel in Mount Lavinia. Whoever wrote it was, obviously, in the drink. Do not drink and type this holiday season.
Nothing quite like sipping a ‘wishky’ or a ‘Henness’ and smoking a Benson & ‘Hedg’. There is also ‘Vanila la milk shakes’ for teetotalers. The drinks list at Palm Beach Hotel in Mount Lavinia was written by a drunkard. #FACT Do no drink and type this holiday season.
