Cute picture; horrible grammar.
Time for a serious discussion. Does anyone know at what point poor grammar became cute? Was it LOLCats or maybe instant messaging?
It takes a lot more effort to think about and say, “Us always will fight 4 our princesses” than “We will always fight for our princesses.” I’m not here to criticize anyone, I’m just curious.
source: deviantART
December 27, 2012 at 9:21 pm #
Went to the artist’s DeviantArt page. Doesn’t seem that English is his native language. If you read the descriptions for any of his pictures, this becomes clear. I may be wrong but I think it is Spanish. I don’t think this is an issue of him trying to be cute. It looks like an unintentional grammar mistake do to different languages.
December 27, 2012 at 9:52 pm #
I don’t natively speak Spanish, but I could still tell whether a sentence structure is that far off. Besides, he is using numbers instead of words. Which language does that? And he would have to know that four and for homophones in order to do it. I’m going to have a to call shenanigans on this one.
December 27, 2012 at 9:59 pm #
If you replace Us with We it makes more sense in my opinion. That sounds like a grammar issue that may happen. Just saying. I don’t think it’s that hard to believe.
December 27, 2012 at 10:17 pm #
Sorry for double replying, but I can’t edit my previous post. I forgot you mentioned the same thing that We makes more sense than Us. If this was a case of an Native English speaker I would be agreeing with you. But going by what seems to be the language he uses for everything he writes in descriptions and such, and also judging from his other similar works where he doesn’t ever do this, I can’t help but get the feeling that this wasn’t intentional. If I’m wrong, it’s not a big deal to me. Just stating what I feel base on what I’ve looked at.
Also, using actual numbers instead of words isn’t that uncommon for lower number like 1-10. It’s often quicker, simpler, and takes less room. Plus I can’t help but think it looks better in a stylish sense.
December 28, 2012 at 5:14 am #
I’m brazilian. I speak portuguese, wich is pretty close to spanish (I do a little spanish too).
I can tell he did the mistakes on purpose. Unless he’s not from a spanish origin. Chinese, or something like that.
Anyway, using “4″ for “for” requires an understanding in english that you just can’t get by mistake.
December 29, 2012 at 2:36 pm #
I’m a native Spanish speaker, and I can tell you that he’s using the proper Spanish structure. Mixing structures is pretty common, so I’m guessing it’s just a mistake.
If he wanted to use bad grammar, he probably wouldn’t have written everything properly.
And using ’4′ as ‘for’ is just as complicated as using ‘U’ as ‘you’, really |:
December 27, 2012 at 11:18 pm #
If only those princesses could stop getting kidnapped every 5 minutes.
December 28, 2012 at 8:45 am #
And those princesses will NEVER PUT OUT!
Seriously I bet after the princess is saved, and the ending credits are done rolling, the Hero and the Princess just stand there and go “ok…now what?”, “umm…so I’ll see you same time next week then?”, “yeah…sure”.
December 29, 2012 at 1:32 pm #
What about the ending of Zelda 2?
December 30, 2012 at 5:22 am #
I’m willing to gamble that finding poor grammar cute is older than the written word. It’s the same reason people gurgle and babble at babies and little animals. :/