Ur Mom: Correcting The Grammar Of Graffitti

That should be “Your mom.” A brilliant ad campaign for a London tutoring company takes to the streets to show people the correct way to write mean things about other people’s mothers on walls.

To participate in the global culture of cool, learning English is a must. But the process of learning English itself isn’t very cool.

An English tutoring company is trying to rebrand English grammar with a provocative campaign featuring pictures of London graffiti, marked up for grammatical correctness. Online tutoring site The Tutor Crowd has a Tumblr dedicated to the imagery: someone’s scrawl of “SO HOT RITE NOW” has the ‘E’ excised and a ‘GH’ added in. An apostrophe is added to help express something unprintable about “Sams” / “Sam’s” dad. You get the idea.

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