Grammar Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

i think Apple is affecting children's grammar

by Michael Grothaus (Feb 17th, 2011)

I want to relate an interesting story my brother told me the other day about one fascinating -- and negative -- way Apple is affecting children in the classroom. My brother is a grade school teacher, and recently he's noticed an alarming trend in his students' grammar, specifically ...

Zut alors! MacBook announcement doesn't translate well

by Robert Palmer (Oct 15th, 2008)

Thanks to what appears to be a character encoding problem on a French version of the Apple website, the MacBook announcement -- meant to say "perfectly designed" in French -- came out reading "perfectly dumb" (or as one of our tipsters said, a more vulgar version of "perfectly poopy"). That wasn't ...