We are almost used to commercial enterprises using apostrophes inappropriately but to find it misplaced in the pages of a newspaper – in this case the Nova Scotian insert of the Chronicle Herald – AND in the books section in an article about an author is enough to make us weep. How did someone not catch this?
We wish there was a cyber version of The panda says no! sticker to slap on the online version of this headline. These stickers sometimes came with the book Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss.
Trouble is you would need hundreds and hundreds of them.
Wolfville watch 
Wow. That headline is ridiculous.
As far as “online grammar” (or lack thereof) goes, I’m slightly frightened for the future of the English language. I found myself wanted to shout “YES AND AMEN!” when I read Eats, Shoots and Leaves (well, not really, but I sure did internally).
A friend of mine teaches high school chemistry. She has actually had students hand in lab reports filled out with the infamous”texting grammar.” They don’t understand why this would be unacceptable. The only thing more frightening than that is when these same students attempt to write it “real English.” An entire generation is entering their post-secondary education with absolutely no clue how to form a sentence. Reading their letters, emails, and essays requires a sort of decoding.
How does one not know how to make a basic sentence? What’s wrong with this picture?
The occasional grammar blunder is one thing. We all make them. You even made one in this post– the comma that should be after “inappropriately” and before “but” is missing. However! Paragraph after paragraph of run-ons and fragments is. Hard to read and understand. And, yes, I’ve actually seen many as bad as that.
Good luck in your grammatical endeavors.
Grrr… I meant “wanting,” not “wanted.” Alas, typos happen.
We hope that some of those who are “texting” – is that a word?- can switch modes as our offspring sometimes did; if they can use certain expressions and shortcuts with their friends but also remain completely comprehensible to others that’s fine. Let’s hope that is the case for many.
Yes, typos happen especially when it is so easy to change a sentence, say to another tense, but then you forget to completely change it so it makes sense and then you hit that submit button! We do, when we have time and when we notice them, go back and edit some of these boo boos out of our posts but in a comment this is not always possible! We try to remind ourselves to read them 3 times over first.
But we like comments with or without typos so thanks for looking in and contributing to the conversation.
I wish there were more correct use of the subjunctive, I do.