Word Crimes

[Bruce the Duck]

Go to Jarret Heather's website http://spaceparanoids.net/wordcrimes/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; to learn more about the process.
Good stuff.

That was incredible! We've never had an animator give us so much detail about the process before. I was most fascinated by the color bible. It's definitely noticeable in the video.

I didn't notice the thing about the dictionary pages though. That's so clever.

[mrmeadows]

Apparently Joseph Gordon-Levitt is another celeb Al fan:
https://twitter.com/hitRECordJoe/status ... 0175225857" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Kevbo1987]

I guess Al needed some of that autotune...yikes.

I really don't think he sounded bad. He might have been a little out of tune on some of the falsetto parts, but it wasn't awful or anything.

[mellow weasel]

I am sure that if this song get's performed live, Al will practice the beginning.

Or he'll just sing it lower (he did that with "Confessions").

[Bruce the Duck]

The behind the scenes page says that there were 7 instances of the number 27 in the video. I only have found three (or four).

1. One the less/fewer sign
2. On the dictionary cover (does this count as 2 since it was shown twice?)
3. On the crime scene marker

Who has found the other four (or three)?

[weird user]

I didn't realize that Word Crimes and First World Problems were two different songs (they both have the similar "Word"/"World" in the titles).

Which means I should start paying more attention to the full track listings when they are posted. I think somebody heard that one of the songs would be controversial, and I was expecting it to be Word Crimes.

[PlayAWarGame]

I didn't realize that Word Crimes and First World Problems were two different songs (they both have the similar "Word"/"World" in the titles).

Which means I should start paying more attention to the full track listings when they are posted. I think somebody heard that one of the songs would be controversial, and I was expecting it to be Word Crimes.

Word Crimes is the more controversial of the two, due to its parody subject.

[mellow weasel]

The behind the scenes page says that there were 7 instances of the number 27 in the video. I only have found three (or four).

1. One the less/fewer sign
2. On the dictionary cover (does this count as 2 since it was shown twice?)
3. On the crime scene marker

Who has found the other four (or three)?

I already mentioned Doge tweet retweets and the test question number ("if you don't know how to conjugate"). There's also Care-O-Meter model 274C, but I wouldn't count that one...

[Marc]

Time for revised lyrics

Thanks for doing this! (Though you may want to correct your spelling on "incoherent.")

That's my Word Crime ...
(I'm not a native English speaker )

[Marc]

Well, erm... thanks for that animatic ... as it has the lyrics written underneath, probably the way it's written in the booklet of the cd. Now I can start all over again! :'(



Everybody shut up
Woo!
Everyone listen up
(Hey, hey, hey!)
(Hey, hey, hey!)
Uuuh... Woo!
(Hey, hey, hey!)

If you can't write, in the proper way, (lousy writer)
If you don't know, how to conjugate,
Maybe you flunked that class, (Hey, hey, hey!)
And maybe now you find, (Hey, hey, hey!)
That people mock you online. (Hey, hey, hey!)
Everybody wise up

Okay, now here's the deal,
I'll try to educate you,
Gonna familiarize,
You with the nomenclature, (meeow)
You'll learn the definitions, (Hey, hey hey!)
Of nouns and prepositions, (Hey, hey, hey!)
Literacy's your mission, (Hey, hey, hey!)
And that's why I think it's a GOOD TIME,
To learn some grammar, (what?!)
Now, did I stammer?
Work on that grammar,
You should KNOW WHEN,
It's "less" or it's "fewer",
Like people who were,
never raised in a sewer, (I hate these)
WORD CRIMES.
Like "I could care less," (Hey, hey, hey!)
That means you do care,
At least a little, (Don't be a)
MORON,
You'd better slow down,
And use the right pronoun,
Show the world you're no clown. (Everybody wise up)

Say you've got an "i-t",
Followed by apostrophe,
"s" now, what does that mean?
YOU WOULD NOT USE "it's" IN THIS CASE,
As a possessive, (No, no, no!)
It's a contraction, (Yeah, yeah, yeah!)
What's a contraction?
(Well, it's the shortening of a word or group of words
...by omission of a sound or letter)

Okay, now here are some NOTES:
Syntax you're always mangling,
No "x" in espresso,
Your participle's dangling, (Uh huh!)
But I don't want your drama, (Uh huh!) (Hey, hey, hey!)
If you really wanna, (Uh huh!) (Hey, hey, hey!)
Leave out that Oxford comma, (Uh huh!) (Hey, hey, hey!)
Just keep in mind that "c", "b", "R", "U",
Aren't words, they're letters, <<<<<<<<<<<<< different?
Get it together,
Use your spell checker,
You should NEVER,
Write words using numbers,
Unless you're seven,
or your name is Prince, (I hate these)
WORD CRIMES, (Hate them crimes)
You really need a, (I hate them crimes)
Full-time proofreader, (I mean those crimes)
You dumb mouth-breather, (well you should)
HIRE,
Some cunning linguist,
To help you distinguish,
what is proper English, (Everybody wise up)

One thing I ask of you,
Time to learn your homophones is past due,
Learn to diagram a sentence, too,
Always say "to whom", don't ever say "to who",
And listen up when I tell you this,
I hope you never use quotation marks for emphasis,
You finished second grade; I hope can tell,
If you're doing good or doing well, (Everybody wise up)

Better figure out the difference,
Irony is not coincidence,
And I thought that you'd gotten it through your skull,
About what's figurative and what's literal,
Oh, but just now (just now) you said (you said),
You "literally couldn't get out of bed," (What!?)
That really makes me want to literally,
Smack a crowbar upside your stupid head! (I read your)
E-MAIL,
It's quite apparent,
Your grammar's errant,
You're incoherent, (Saw your)
BLOG POST,
It's really fantastic,
(That was sarcastic,)
'Cause you write like a spastic, (I hate these)
WORD CRIMES, (Everybody wise up!)
Your prose is dopey,
Think you should only,
Write in emoji, (Oh, you're a)
LOST CAUSE,
Go back to preschool,
Get out of the gene pool,
Try your best to not drool,

Never mind I give up,
Really now I give up.
... (Hey, hey, hey!)
... (Hey, hey, hey!)
... (Go away!)