This award goes to individuals and companies who proudly display their poor command of the English language.
This is not an excuse to pick on non-native speakers and young children, but an award for English-speaking adults and young adults who publish Web pages without any regard for editing, grammar, punctuation, spelling, or even the correct meanings of words. The Awards Committee, when provoked, also includes pages with an annoying or confusing rhetorical style.
The too-common "this page is under construction" notice does not eliminate people from the fierce competition for this prestigious pile of pixels. Sometimes such an annoucement inspires leniency, but the Awards Committee's view is that all Web sites are dynamic and "under construction" --unless abandoned. Therefore the page builder should not post any unfinished documents while offering lame excuses about not having finished them. Imagine the world if Henry Ford had churned a few tires out of his famed assembly line and said "Behold: the Model T. It's not quite finished, though." We would still be walking around bearing the stink of freshly-ridden horses. What if one of the most powerful historical documents in United States history, the Declaration of Independence, were a Web-Based Declaration of Independence? The Awards Committee wishes people to offer the public their best, not their "good enough for not having spent any effort" or their half-finished.
Feel free to send this page to any of the winners. I had originally intended to inform each winner as part of bestowing the award, but decided against it because that would probably make the winning page change, making me look bad for pointing out failings that aren't there. I look bad enough already, so I'd rather not make things worse. Besides, making fun of people behind their backs makes me feel big. I could argue that I'm using ridicule to improve the quality of what appears on Web pages nowadays, but really I'm doing it just because I'm mean.
If you're looking to see another page of my mean-spirited humor as we laugh at someone else, do look and see an incident that happened to me.
Colosseum
Gridiron
Challenge
Reason:
Mayn
tyops.
Can't
seem
to
figure
out
if
he
will
"talk
Football"
or
"talk
football."
"Misused"
quotation
marks.
Even..misused
ellipsis.
And!
Too
many
exclamation
points!
Be sure to find out how "good" Mr. O did after seeing the all-too-common agreement error coupled with the wrong "their" earlier in the page.
"evil's
Home
Page"
Reason:
Overuse
of
exclamation
points!!!!
Spelling
"trainer"
with
an
"o."
using
the
wrong
"you're/your."
Confusing
the
hyphen
and
dash.
"Orchestra's
On
The
Net"
Reason:
Repeated
misuse's
of
apostrophe's,
demonstrating
a
misunderstanding
of
their
proper
use's
coupled
with
A
Flimsy
Grasp
Of
The
Rules
Governing
Capital
Letters
In
Titles.
http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/1019/
Reason:
Sloppy
editing
and
confusing
sentences.
Blatant
fragments
on
the
Maimed
English
Award
page.
Links
Gripes
Downloads
"Words,
words,
words."
Get
your
own
Free
Home
Page