Back off, editor!

Back off, editor! Step away from your keyboard and head over to a book on grammar. You might learn something. Like, without a hyphen, you’re telling your reader to back away from Hollywood:

Anyone unfortunate enough to read the accompanying article on Yahoo! Shine would notice that you really meant: Back off, Hollywood. In other words, the comma indicates that you’re talking to Hollywood, not about Hollywood.

So, an error in a headline isn’t the best way to start an article. But the errors don’t stop there. There’s the transposed words:

And the spelling of the “Dukes of Hazzard” and a missing quotation mark:

There ya go again, using a big word without understanding its meaning:

A litany is a repetition of a sound or words. Your use of it here makes no sense. No sense whatsoever.

Dear, I don’t know how you missed this lesson in fourth grade: If the subject of a sentence is plural, the verb should be, too. Also, you may have been out of the room when your fifth grade teacher explained that you need a semicolon, not a comma, to join two independent clauses without a conjunction. You should have kept intact intact:

You seemed to have missed quotation marks around “Perfect Strangers.” And it’s not “The Gary Shandling Show”: it’s “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show.” And it’s not Gary Shandling, it’s Garry Shandling.

Other than that, this is perfect.

It’s Garry Shandling’s Show

If only there were some way to check the spelling of a celebrity’s name. Like a picture or something. I’m sure the writer for Yahoo! TV could use it:

Arr. It’s Garry Shandling

And it’s not Gary Shandling, as reported on Yahoo! Movies:

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