May 19, 2005

Gaudere’s Law

Posted in General at 5:36 pm by Ian

Named after a moderator at the Straight Dope Message Boards in this thread, Gaudere’s Law states:

Any post made to point out a spelling or grammar error will invariably contain a spelling or grammar error.

I just ran across a very humourous example of this in a thread lamenting the state of spelling on internet message boards (bad).
These three posts were in succession with the latter ones quoting their predecessors.

He spells so bad…

badly.

Fragment.

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1 Comment »

  1. Hill said,

    Guilty!! Benn there and done that!!

    :8^(( <=Shame faced!!


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