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> I'm looking at an ad banner right now - for Propecia, mind, which isn't exactly something made by two kids in their garage - that contains the line "order your's today." Pursuing this matter further, I find a web site with the same kind of attention to detail - commas inserted where no comma should be, hyphens not inserted where hyphens should be, misspellings ("manufactures rebates"), use of pidgin English ("at top of head") where the brevity is not really needed and seems strikingly out of place. Now, I'm not a rabid pedant - I don't jump on people for spelling things wrong or whatnot. But I *do* find it rather an abomination when a corporate web site - and even its ad banners - displays such sloppiness with the English language. I wonder what the actual cost of such sloppiness is; how many customers does that lack of attention to detail turn away? I know I'm less inclined to buy things from companies who show so little care for their publications. Anyone else the same way?

Maybe a little, sometimes, but I often slap in a comma just because I feel like it. My spelling is atrocious, but I don't worry much about that. Also, my grammar is a little too informal sometimes. But, yes, I think people who put their errors on billboards should be sent back to school. I read an ad for a used car today that included the words "must sale," and a classified for a motorcycle that said "Rode very little." Both of these errors are common in this area. The one that erks me the most is confusing "your" and "you're." But I did it myself the other day. It was in an email and I caught and corrected it before I sent it out. Hmmmmm. A compound sentence like that could have used a comma. I guess I didn't feel like using one.
Howard