Monday, November 24, 2014

Hey, Intermediate crowd! I was pleased to see that some of you decided to attend my talk last Thursday. It was fun, wasn't it? I hope you learnt a thing or two about natural languages too. Today I just wanted to share a little something with all of you. It's this cover of a movie that I recently bought for my kids. As you can see, it's a well-known well-produced film with bucketloads of money behind it... Yet a grammar mistake went unnoticed. Can you spot it? Here is the cover:


Nobody is perfect, right?
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