Capitalisation of the initial letters of proper nouns and the intial letter of the first word of a statement is not ” good grammar”, it is correct punctuation. The misuse of the ellipsis is bad punctuation.
Actually, the contraction “it’s” does have an apostrophe. “Its” without an apostrophe is used when speaking in the possessive- “I knew its name,” for example.
=)
Wait… are you saying that its (possesive) is a contraction and it’s (it is) is a conjunction? I’m pretty sure that’s right but I’m not sure… please correct me if I’m wrong…
OK, someone already brought up School House Rock, but no one gave us the explanation for what a conjuction is, so….
“Conjunction Junction, what’s your function?”
“Hooking up words and phrases and clauses.”
If you want to join the grammar snob club then make sure you master all the rules.
‘Poorly written’ does not require hyphenation.
When used as modifiers, adverbs that end in ‘ly’ are not followed by hyphens.
Errors in writing aside, this e-mail had me crying from laughter. Perhaps it was onset by the awkward family photos I had just seen. Read the e-mail as though it were written correctly and it’s still a riot.
Or maybe I really don’t get the joke.
I initially loved this site. But I wish it were a bit more family friendly. Awkward is one thing. But 1/2 of the posts are related to something ual. This site has so much potential without resorting to the baser nature of being awkward. I agree that there is room for satire, but why do we have to make the captions suggest something ually titillating? Isn’t there enogh of that on the web already? Some have captions that hint at incest. Not awkward, Not funny. Disappointing.
You guys know what you are doing in exposing the World’s total Awkwardness for what it is. Hell…Humankind is Awkward.
You’re doing a public service as far as many of us are concerned and you are healing the whole planet by letting us all know that is okay to be…Awkward.
Good Lord,
This site is a place where all can come and enjoy and laugh. If you honestly sit and just look for spelling issues and miss the point, then please remove your cranium from your rectum.
Laugh people, there is a time and place for laughter, look around the time is now. If your family photo is posted here, well hell you can just close the site and look around.
I must thank each and every person who has sent a photo or even photo’s, they have been a true source of laughter and tears.
very awkward email with the spelling and all. maybe the sender should work on his writing skills and make sure things are right before sending critcisms.
This guy trying to tell ANYBODY to work on their writing (or righting, in his brain) is good for a laugh. This goes for everybody. Wake up. If you’re an adult, learn to read. Learn grammar. Learn the different spellings of words that sound alike and when to use them. ESPECIALLY when trying to make a point. Otherwise, people that…ya know…..actually CAN write at a 5th grade level are just going to say….”what does this idiot know, he’s either ignorant (this one doesn’t fair too well when trying to make a point about anything….people thinking you’re ignorant while you’re trying to change their thinking about something…LOL), LAZY (doesn’t want to take the time and effort to learn to write the language he speaks on a day to day basis…yet somehow finds the time to leave a freaking comment on awkwardfamilyphotos.com), or he just lacks the IQ to know how to spell” (this could be a definite possibility, considering he sent an email about the bad WRITING on a website about PHOTOGRAPHS) Seriously, Greg… STFU. Go critique a show that’s more on your level. Like Baby Einstein or Teletubbies.
Bah! Your post makes me feel awkward. And oddly enough, not a good awkward. Kind of an awkward where someone just doesn’t get the point of humor. Of an idea being overused so many times you just laugh because you are delirious with it. Of laughing because no matter how many photos are posted here, our great American culture is generating millions and millions more of stupid, badly posed, foolish and completely ridiculous family “golden nuggets” that will often get preserved for generations to come. There is not end to this! Accept that.
Y’all are getting upset about missing his “point” to focus on poor grammar, but when you’re writing, that IS the point–if you want to be taken seriously, you cannot distract the reader with pithy mistakes. If he’d been speaking, there would have been no grammar issues to harp on, but his argument was lost in translation.
These photos are not only funny but grotesque, disturbing, embarassing, puzzling, uncomfortable, and in their desire to create a moment of shared community and identity.. but creating a flawed image, a bizarre caricature .. bad fashion, bad hair, bad habits.. weird stuff in a non-weird context.. like opening a carton of ice cream and finding cold.. uhm.. mud.
Awkward IS the more appropriate term.
We only laugh at these to hold back the tears and vomit..
Ironically I agree with him. His writing skills are poor, but you do use the word “awkward” to describe situations that are really not awkward. They are funny but just not awkward (ie uncomfortable).
“Awkward” is subjective. What may be funny to Greg may be awkward to someone else. Most of the photos on here ARE awkward. I wish people would just enjoy the site and stop complaining about labels. Ugh.
What makes me sad is that all the people complaining about the grammer. All you have done is take this persons original idea and crapped all over for something as small and trivial as the grammer. Its seems like people just want to crap on everything. I have an idea come up with your own site for something and watch all the people crap on it, then maybe you’ll find something better to complain about!!!!!!!!!!
Hmm, my only comment here is that BlueDragon isn’t making any sense to me. You seem to be defending the guy writing to crap all over this site by saying, “how would you like it if somebody crapped all over your site?”
I don’t follow. You’re mad about people being negative about a guy being negative? What original idea? That stuff isn’t awkward? It’s the name of the site!
Shouldn’t it be “writing” and NOT “righting”? I would think if you were going to make such a suggestion on how someone WRITES you should probably use the correct spelling of the word. Oh people…LOL! This site is awesome. Keep up the great work!
Grace – that phrase, “work on the righting please and you’ll be top notch,” is part of Greg’s original email to Awkward Family Photos. Seems that your “clever one” question might be more appropriately asked of you. Work on the reading and observing please and you’ll be top notch.
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afp
Could this be any “funner”?
Yeah, it sure could, it could be MORE FUNNER!!!
heeeey how come you published my email eh? that was supposed to be an annonanmonomous email sent to you … personally!
That has to be the most unique spelling of the word ‘anonymous’ that I’ve ever seen. Well done!
Do you not read teh site – did you not see another email published a month ago?
Jeees
well, annonanmonomous … We now all know you are Canadian, eh?
Think of it this way, Greg: You got a text post on a photo blog. And it’s an entertaining one, at that! That’s fame.
And the worst thing is that even you americans can’t write correct.
Yes, I mean you guys – here – in these comment fields!
Hey, Andy…
Take a look at what you just wrote…
“And the worst thing is that even you americans can’t write correct.
Yes, I mean you guys – here – in these comment fields!”
Look over it a few times… You might find some rather crappy grammar. You’ll figure it out…
Here to help
Are you Rick James, b***h?
correctLY. please correct me correctly.
*Correctly*
You mean we americans can’t write right?
capitalization, andy—Americans, not americans. capitalization is a very underrated part of good grammar…
You talk about capitalisation but you don’t use capitals yourself… Hypocrite much?
Faeuli:
I think Emm is mocking the incorrect grammar in Andy’s comment.
Hahahaha this is so funny. I love how all these people are attempting to correct the grammar of others yet inadvertently fail every time…..
Well, I’ll have you know that we live in a free-market capitalization society, and if you don’t like it, that’s Too Bad!!!
Capitalisation of the initial letters of proper nouns and the intial letter of the first word of a statement is not ” good grammar”, it is correct punctuation. The misuse of the ellipsis is bad punctuation.
The word in question, Americans, was actually a proper adjective. And, as an English teacher, I believe that mechanics and grammar go hand in hand.
WOW… nevermind. I was thinking of the word “American” not “Americans.” That is my mistake, and Grammar GIrl is correct.
That would be Americans, with a capital “A” and Correctly instead of correct, also we don’t use – we use, to pause!
**Oh, dears God don’t let me have screwed that up!
This is the forum for peeple who doesn’t right good.
Oh crap, now that;s funny/ Whoopps, did some bat typomographical grammer stuph.
hardy har. i am cracking up.
You are all inebriated with the exuberance of your own verbosity!!
“Work on the righting” LOL That’s – awkward LOL
No, what’s awkward is how you tried to correct him in his/her letter however said “righting” instead of “writing”.
Good try though
-lol
No, actually they were quoting the email, not correcting it. Do you see the quotation marks?
What’s NOT awkward, is how “lol” just gave us a post that makes no sense at all. I believe Korpish was quoting, not correcting.
That’s why… you know… they used “quotation” marks.
Um, lol?
Korpish is quoting, not correcting, the letter.
what a clunge!
So the consensus is Korpish misspelled the word?
not quite. the consensus is that lol is an idiot
lol @ lol
“No, no, no, that’s not right! Now conjugate…Romanus, Romani”
XD
“Wewease Wodewick!!!”
I think its great that everyone noticed the bad spelling – and grammar (not grammer!) – its really encouraging
You mean “it’s really encouraging” :p
hahahahahhahahahahhahaha .
if only we could all spell .
it would be really nice .
actually, ITS is the only conjunction in the english language that does not use an apostrohpe!
Actually, the contraction “it’s” does have an apostrophe. “Its” without an apostrophe is used when speaking in the possessive- “I knew its name,” for example.
=)
You mean contraction? It’s (or its) is a contraction, not a conjunction and it DOES use an apostrophe depending upon how it is used in a sentence.
Wait… are you saying that its (possesive) is a contraction and it’s (it is) is a conjunction? I’m pretty sure that’s right but I’m not sure… please correct me if I’m wrong…
“School House Rock” moment! “Conjunction junction, what’s your function….”
LOL Joe! I was thinking that as well.
You best be trollin’.
It’s is a contraction standing for it is. Its is a pronoun, like hers and his and yours. If you cannot say it is in place of it’s, then it’s its
Here’s an easy way to remember which “its” gets the apostrophe: the apostrophe replaces the “i”, so the apostrophe is only used to mean “it is”.
OK, someone already brought up School House Rock, but no one gave us the explanation for what a conjuction is, so….
“Conjunction Junction, what’s your function?”
“Hooking up words and phrases and clauses.”
Their big examples are “and”, “but”, and “or”.
I think Strong Bad explained it best with his song, which goes something like this:
“Ohhhhhh…. if you’re trying to be possessive, it’s just I-T-S. But if it’s a contraction then it’s I-T-apostrophe-S! Scallawag!”
I am so happy to have finally run across someone on the internet who understands that spelling and grammar are two different things!
LOL
OMG you guys sound like my MOTHER!!! (shes an english major!!)
You guys should participate in “Are you smarter than a 5th grader?” !
We too spel akwart iz de fonny thyme happie YAIGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
P.S. Please stop awkwardly over-using that awkward word, “awkward.”
despite the obvious grammatical errors, i think i agree with the central theory behind this email.
I found this comment thread after I googled “modern american usage”
To ‘Pete’
If you want to join the grammar snob club then make sure you master all the rules.
‘Poorly written’ does not require hyphenation.
When used as modifiers, adverbs that end in ‘ly’ are not followed by hyphens.
Honestly, I don’t understand what the crap most of you are saying. I miss punctuation.
To respond to Greg’s point: I think that part of the humor, for me, lies in the overuse of the word “awkward”.
huk’d awn fawnix wrk’d 4 me
FAIL!!
photoes?… photos
Irony.
Errors in writing aside, this e-mail had me crying from laughter. Perhaps it was onset by the awkward family photos I had just seen. Read the e-mail as though it were written correctly and it’s still a riot.
Or maybe I really don’t get the joke.
I hate it when I overuse my hammer.
i agree ..your captions and attempts at trying to be funny are reminding me of Bob Saget on AFHV..things like this are much funnier without captions
HAHAHA!
I think it might have been a joke, a good one! If not… wow.
lol they are right
Yeah, like he/she said “work on your RIGHTING” thats ‘right’ you heard me, ‘righting,’ yeah.
take that! grammar school! Pttthththttttttt!
Don’t Agoraphobics get on your freaking nerves!
I initially loved this site. But I wish it were a bit more family friendly. Awkward is one thing. But 1/2 of the posts are related to something ual. This site has so much potential without resorting to the baser nature of being awkward. I agree that there is room for satire, but why do we have to make the captions suggest something ually titillating? Isn’t there enogh of that on the web already? Some have captions that hint at incest. Not awkward, Not funny. Disappointing.
If you have a problem with the site, then why do you still visit? Not the brightest star in the sky, now are we?
This site is obviously for adults- not kids! And why should it be? Kids have Spongebob.
You guys know what you are doing in exposing the World’s total Awkwardness for what it is. Hell…Humankind is Awkward.
You’re doing a public service as far as many of us are concerned and you are healing the whole planet by letting us all know that is okay to be…Awkward.
Well done. Don’t listen to any naysayers.
Keep em Flying.
Good Lord,
This site is a place where all can come and enjoy and laugh. If you honestly sit and just look for spelling issues and miss the point, then please remove your cranium from your rectum.
Laugh people, there is a time and place for laughter, look around the time is now. If your family photo is posted here, well hell you can just close the site and look around.
I must thank each and every person who has sent a photo or even photo’s, they have been a true source of laughter and tears.
Zoe
“Photo’s?” Really? What belongs to the “photo’s?”
very awkward email with the spelling and all. maybe the sender should work on his writing skills and make sure things are right before sending critcisms.
I love the spelling.. makes me laugh way more.
I wonder how that person is feeling now.
This guy trying to tell ANYBODY to work on their writing (or righting, in his brain) is good for a laugh. This goes for everybody. Wake up. If you’re an adult, learn to read. Learn grammar. Learn the different spellings of words that sound alike and when to use them. ESPECIALLY when trying to make a point. Otherwise, people that…ya know…..actually CAN write at a 5th grade level are just going to say….”what does this idiot know, he’s either ignorant (this one doesn’t fair too well when trying to make a point about anything….people thinking you’re ignorant while you’re trying to change their thinking about something…LOL), LAZY (doesn’t want to take the time and effort to learn to write the language he speaks on a day to day basis…yet somehow finds the time to leave a freaking comment on awkwardfamilyphotos.com), or he just lacks the IQ to know how to spell” (this could be a definite possibility, considering he sent an email about the bad WRITING on a website about PHOTOGRAPHS) Seriously, Greg… STFU. Go critique a show that’s more on your level. Like Baby Einstein or Teletubbies.
Hugs and Kisses,
Dan
Also,
GLASS HOUSES BABY
If you don’t like the site, then don’t look at it. problem solved
There are plenty of people that do, so get over it.
Hahahahaha! I know this has probably been commented on 8000 times, but “RIGHTING”???? Best unintentional irony in a minute!
Bah! Your post makes me feel awkward. And oddly enough, not a good awkward. Kind of an awkward where someone just doesn’t get the point of humor. Of an idea being overused so many times you just laugh because you are delirious with it. Of laughing because no matter how many photos are posted here, our great American culture is generating millions and millions more of stupid, badly posed, foolish and completely ridiculous family “golden nuggets” that will often get preserved for generations to come. There is not end to this! Accept that.
haha he’s telling YOU to work on your righting
I LOVED Greg’s response to his own email. He has a wonderful sense of humor!
Marilyn, You are Greg’s mom aren’t you.
Righting? As opposed to wronging?
Initially, I could see Greg’s point….But, let’s not discount just how “awkward” the initial posing must be!
Anyone with that many grammatical errors can’t be taken seriously, anyway.
Y’all are getting upset about missing his “point” to focus on poor grammar, but when you’re writing, that IS the point–if you want to be taken seriously, you cannot distract the reader with pithy mistakes. If he’d been speaking, there would have been no grammar issues to harp on, but his argument was lost in translation.
These photos are not only funny but grotesque, disturbing, embarassing, puzzling, uncomfortable, and in their desire to create a moment of shared community and identity.. but creating a flawed image, a bizarre caricature .. bad fashion, bad hair, bad habits.. weird stuff in a non-weird context.. like opening a carton of ice cream and finding cold.. uhm.. mud.
Awkward IS the more appropriate term.
We only laugh at these to hold back the tears and vomit..
Exactly!
no spellchecker?
“your trying to say their funny…” WTF? Did they mean “You’re trying to say they’re funny…” or is the sender … oh, my brain exploded!
Not to mention the mixing up of your, you’re and they’re and their! Hello! Knob Award!
Ironically I agree with him. His writing skills are poor, but you do use the word “awkward” to describe situations that are really not awkward. They are funny but just not awkward (ie uncomfortable).
“Awkward” is subjective. What may be funny to Greg may be awkward to someone else. Most of the photos on here ARE awkward. I wish people would just enjoy the site and stop complaining about labels. Ugh.
Work on the righting please and you’ll be top notch?!?!?!
RIGHTING OR WRITING?
WTF, RIGHTING?!?!!?
I’m laughing so hard I think I’m having a heart attack. SOMEONE CALL 911… Eerrrk
that’s not how you spell “911″
If you want something different go a different site
that would be “writing”, not “righting”. i dunno, maybe you should reconsider what you get “embarrassed” about emailing to other people.
that’s the correct spelling of embarrassed.
Hah! that’s hilarious. Did I spell that right? I think they should add spellcheck to the comment boxes.
What makes me sad is that all the people complaining about the grammer. All you have done is take this persons original idea and crapped all over for something as small and trivial as the grammer. Its seems like people just want to crap on everything. I have an idea come up with your own site for something and watch all the people crap on it, then maybe you’ll find something better to complain about!!!!!!!!!!
(*sigh*) Not a bad idea, but your message would have a little more weight if you hadn’t misspelled “grammar.” Twice.
Hmm, my only comment here is that BlueDragon isn’t making any sense to me. You seem to be defending the guy writing to crap all over this site by saying, “how would you like it if somebody crapped all over your site?”
I don’t follow. You’re mad about people being negative about a guy being negative? What original idea? That stuff isn’t awkward? It’s the name of the site!
Yes, work on that righting.
Shouldn’t it be “writing” and NOT “righting”? I would think if you were going to make such a suggestion on how someone WRITES you should probably use the correct spelling of the word. Oh people…LOL! This site is awesome. Keep up the great work!
Adrienne, I’m pretty sure that Chris was using “righting” to make fun of the email that Greg sent. You’re a clever one, aren’t you?
Grace – that phrase, “work on the righting please and you’ll be top notch,” is part of Greg’s original email to Awkward Family Photos. Seems that your “clever one” question might be more appropriately asked of you. Work on the reading and observing please and you’ll be top notch.
Nope…. he said “righting” because that’s what Greg said in the e-mail where he was criticizing other people’s writing.
Let us all just get along and enjoy the awkward.
work on the righting please