Nullius in Verba

Friday, October 15, 2010

The The Impotence of Proofreading

Hilarious performance about the importance of proofreading. Every student of English must watch this!

30 comments:

Mehvash:] said...

HAHAHAHAHAHA oh God I haven't laughed this hard in a while.

I take back my previous comment on the earlier post about spelling and grammar in exams; students should DEFINITELY give importance to their spelling!.. Especially if their sentences come out sounding like dirty innuendos :p

Jurgienne said...

LOL :P ahahahaha aww :')

See, now can anybody blame me for being such a spelling/grammar nazi sometimes? XD

Hilarious video tho :D

Tannya D said...

HAHAHAHAHAH
The dirty jokes. Tut tut tut. :P

Hilarious! Hahhahahaha. Wow, proper spelling and grammar really should be looked into. It would be funny being the examiner who was handed in work with accidentally suggestive phrases by some candidate....

Unknown said...

HAHAHAHA

This guy's a genius, :P

Shennin said...

Hahahahah xD

Hilarious I say! Hilarious! Imagine we all actually spoke like that, with wrong grammatical sentences, people would think we’re ‘dirty minded’ :P

And I’m agreeing with Mehvash, I would also like to take back my previous comment on the earlier post about spelling and grammar in exams; we should definitely, most absolutely give importance to our spellings and grammar, because who knows otherwisess we might ended up spoke-ing like this this :P

Raya said...

Hahahahaha xD

I agree with Faiza, The guy's a genius. A jaw-breaking one too.
He effectively demonstrates how simple tasks such as proofreading can boost your grades and save you tons of humiliation! :D

Leah Simon said...

LOL! Good one!
Proper spelling and grammar is definitely of great importance!
It really is weird that in English, you leave out or add in one misplaced letter and you end up with a totally new word.

neineisharie said...

"JUST TO GET INTO A GOOD COLLEAGUE."

I laughed so hard :'D

That was one of the most amazing things I have ever seen.

And highfive, Arizza, Grabber Navi's for the gin!

Suheir said...

Hahaha that was hilarious :D

This guy really knows how to get you thinking of the mistakes your making. I sort of agree with what Mehvash said, taking back what I wrote about not deducting marks for grammar and spelling mistakes. It would be funny having to read work of someone who writes like that.

From now on I’m going to double proofread my work, I don’t want my teacher laughing at me :P

Duwane.A said...

That was pretty funny. Luckily I don't think we'll ever come to that point, where our writing on a word processor becomes the way we speak... Without it being auto-corrected. But If you were to read aloud posts on the internet... Well, you guarenteed to come across even more amusing examples.

Yolany Aher said...

Hahaha the dirty jokes! :P
Agree with neineisharie, the colleague thing made me laugh so much!

Safe to say, I will be proofreading my work a lot more. :P

P.S That guy sort of looks like Jim Carrey. Just a little bit. :P

Anonymous said...

That was brilliant!

And I think we can all understand Arizza's little "spelling/grammer nazi syndrome" a little better now :P

Moza said...

LOL, this is the definition of rib-tickling!

Dirty jokes, HAHAHA! :)

This is an affirmation to my comment on the earlier post about spelling and grammar.

Batul Bhatri said...

HAHAHAHAHA! After this video, I am never submitting anything without proofreading it.

Marwan said...

Hahaha that was quite entertaining =D

Unknown said...

LOL, great video!
Funnier, because I tend to ignore my spelling mistakes quite often.

This video will always be a reminder for me :P

Hopefully, the next time i won't be indirectly hitting on my teachers :P

Girisha said...

WOW!!! this was 1 yamazying yillarious viideo!!!
I must say spellings and grammar do play a very strong role in anything & everything!!!
will always proofread from now on!!!

Unknown said...

HAHAHA...That was a hilarious video..We really should give more importance to our spelling and grammar.
Aisha Bashir.
11g2

Unknown said...

Never thought spelling errors could be more perverse than just wrong.

Brilliant video! Better than anal other video I've ever seen! HAHAHAHA!

Mr. Roberts said...

^ Tut tut Myra! :)

Unknown said...

The guy's a genius! :)

A= !!

Unknown said...

Ha, that was rather amusing.
The importance of proofreading is pretty much one of the most vital procedures on an exam, mainly English exams.

On the other hand, id love to read a paper that had all those mistakes, it would make your day. :)

Yusra Shah said...

Fantastic video.

Hilariously points out the amount of silly mistakes we make.

Proofreading is crucial, one missing word or one letter left out, and the whole meaning would change.

Anonymous said...

LOL that was hilarious. I feel speelling and grammar is definately important orelse there's no point in learning the language if your not able to frame proper structured sentences - which constitue of the basics of learning any language. And the video was quite a lesson for me to proofread my work :P.

Unknown said...

Hahaha!! that was simply hilarious! After watching this video I am definetely going to proofread my assignments more often!! XD

Unknown said...

LOLZA!!! To be honest with ya'll I never proofread. Its only when i get my paper back do i realize my daft mistakes! It hasn't always been the problems with my spelling. I keep using the stupid " &" sign instead of "and" and if i actually bothered spending 5 minutes reading through my work i could have definitely had better grade. Shame on me =P

OOOH and hats off to Taylor Mali =)

Yoan Aher said...

Hahaha! To be honest I never actually proofread, but I will now! This guy does a great job of stating the importance of it while being extremely funny.

EliqaShaza said...

HAHAHAHHAHAHAH!

I laughed so hard I was told to keep it down! This guy is seriously talented!

He's not only entertaining he's also advising us on something most people have problems with. Spelling.

Loved it!

Unknown said...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That was
Funny :)


He's a talented performer

EdelineD said...

I could never have imagined the amount of mistakes someone could make with spelling, but this was so funny I couldn't stop laughing for ages after watching it. Taylor Mali is HILARIOUS, and when he puts it that way....
:P