It Gave Me The Joy of QA

Pepsi Canada’s Joymeter is rife with what I assume is the Canadian language.  Here in the United States, we’d call it rife with grammar and spelling errors.

Handwritten spelled with a hyphen:

Maybe that's a minus sign, not a hyphen.

Here’s a run-on sentence:

Maybe the two distinct sentences are sharing a single period.

On one hand, this is not a run-on sentence; on the other hand, it’s a comma splice:

Well, the comma is near the period on the keyboard.

Being Canadian, they naturally spell things with an “eh”:

A natural variant spelling. In the colonial period.

Missing the serial comma here.  And the apostrophe.  But the apostrophe is missing from most messages.

No comma, no apostrophes. For space reason.

Additionally, the Joyous Word widget has a little problem with displaying the information panel; if you place your mouse cursor just to the left of the little i, it flickers or displays nothing at all:

It's not a spelling problem.

Here’s a tip: when you’re testing a gee-whiz, pointless, and ultimately foolish Flash presentation that your interactive agency tells you will be the greatest thing evah! and builds you something it wants to build to please its creatives and impress its peers but that will not attract repeat visits or please consumers, make sure you read the words.

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