Even the bright people behind the show “Lost” are not immune from the irresistible pull of Manglish. from this week’s episode:
and the rest of the sentence just so you don’t think I was getting it out of context:
don’t believe me? Check with your Tivos. And this one was from Adult Swim on Cartoon Network the other night: Am I the only one who sees these things?
11 responses so far ↓
1 Corey Bond // Mar 25, 2006 at 1:31 pm
I caught the “you’re” on LOST, but the more time passed, the more I was thinking I might have been mistaken. Thanks for saving me the trouble of going back to check the tape.
I love your blog, by the way. Your cultural insights are extremely entertaining.
2 Anonymous // Mar 26, 2006 at 8:27 pm
I nearly choked on my popcorn when Lost allowed that one to slip by. I can never understand how errors like that make it through. Fear not, you’re not alone.
3 The same gal from the Bronx // Mar 26, 2006 at 8:57 pm
hmm so, my husband works for my father? I am really ‘lost’ now :p
4 Anonymous // Mar 27, 2006 at 6:27 pm
Love it! But the apostrophe in the Adult Swim text is actually correct. That is, if we assume that what they meant was, “In all it is magnificent…” The incorrect possessive would’ve been “its.”
But I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen an error, so keep up the fantastic entertaining work!
5 venus_leeloo // Mar 27, 2006 at 6:31 pm
Dude, I love your site!!
However, the Adult Swim text is actually correct. As long as we assume that they meant “In all it is magnificent…”
It would’ve been incorrect had they used the possessive “its.”
6 jon // Mar 28, 2006 at 2:05 am
NO WAY is the adult swim text correct - it’s supposed to read ” In all its magnificent stupidity.” Or change the subject - “In all my magnificent stupidity.” or “in all your magnificent stupidity.” The previous slide (which I retardedly didn’t capture) provided more context, but it’s not really needed. The sentence you proposed, “In all it is magnificent stupidity,” might be grammatically correct, but it reads very strangely, especially when the more obvious traditional construction of “In all its blah blah blah” exists. Trust me, it’s a typo.
7 ic3snow // Apr 1, 2006 at 10:28 pm
Your blog is one of the best around. Post more manglish stuff! Makes one wonder how such errors can arise in an economically-growing country which boasts of one too many things.
8 Anonymous // Apr 3, 2006 at 8:03 am
It’s possible AS’s use of the apostrophe was correct, that their mistake was actually in not using a comma: “In all, it’s magnificent stupidity.” Probably not, though.
Really, they make a lot of mistakes. Forgetting commas, mostly, but I believe I’ve seen “it’s” misused more than once, as well.
9 Anonymous // Apr 4, 2006 at 1:08 pm
I love this site.
The Adult Swim reference is funny because they purposely created a gramatical error in a sentence telling you they are idiots. This is Futurama were talking about, which BTW rocks and should be brought back.
It is funny if your English is good and you have a dry sense of humor and enough time on your hands to look for this kind of thing. I bet I have seen the episode a hundred times and never caught that, the quote always struck me as hilarious, now it becomes all the funnier. That is Matt Groening’s humor for you. This is to say for certain they intended this ‘error’ for our amusement.
10 Anonymous // Apr 4, 2006 at 6:15 pm
“ARE YOU CALLING ME A LIAR”
11 Maven // Apr 25, 2006 at 12:37 pm
You want to read some manglish?? Turn on the closed captioning on your TV in America! Oy!
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