Opera — Ad Free
So, Opera have decided to go advertisement free. All fine and groovy, not that they ever bothered me anyway because I personally am a die-hard Mozilla/Firefox fan. Just thought you might like to know in case you’re interested in a new browser.
On a site note — the people who write up the content for the Opera website have a fascination with commas! I know I’m guilty of that exact same crime, but these people are supposed to be professionals.
Opera has removed the banners, found within our browser, and the licensing fee. (Opera.com)
That reads so wrong to me. It just doesn’t look right. I’d personally abolish the first comma and restructure the sentence so it doesn’t sound like there’s a licensing fee within the browser (the fee is FOR the browser.)
Maybe I’m just being anal?
Anna said:
On 21 Sep at 5:14 am
I seem to find it very amusing when professional companies make grammatical errors.
Jordie said:
On 21 Sep at 7:32 am
It’s a bit sad that you’ve dedicated most of that post to criticising the superabudance of commas on the Opera website.
Jordie said:
On 21 Sep at 7:33 am
*superabundance! I knew that looked wrong.
Angie said:
On 21 Sep at 8:11 am
An*l or not, it’s wrong. I’d rewrite it too. (and hey why can’t i write @nal too, if you do??)
Stephanie said:
On 21 Sep at 9:00 am
Jordie – I think it’s a bit sad that a professional website surely full of *nal-retentive folks are unable to grasp the idea of commas – the same idea they learned in 3rd grade!
Frosty said:
On 21 Sep at 9:38 am
Wow that sucks for the people that actually paid to remove the ads from it… That is sad that a professional site can’t use proper grammar though… Horray for adless browsing…
Tiddley said:
On 21 Sep at 10:30 am
Had to read that a total of five times before I got it, evil crazy mad insane commas of death. :o Unless I’m just blind. :)
Rosemarie said:
On 21 Sep at 11:42 am
*giggles* I’m comma-happy too, but not quite that badly (I hope)
Vera said:
On 21 Sep at 1:24 pm
don’t worry… I get this tendency as well. Especially while reading a rather captivating (chick novel -.- ), I see a sentence “Will I take you to the airport?”, with the meaning of offering a ride to the airport. So my mother tongue is not english… but I just felt like asking the person “well… will you?” So… you’re not being exceptionally picky. :-) I never noticed the advertisements before, well I did, but not while navigating.
Mike said:
On 21 Sep at 1:44 pm
That sounds as though there’s a licensing fee within the browser? Wrong. If it said, “Opera has removed the licensing fee, and the banners(,) found within our browser,” it’d mean that. But it doesn’t.
Trinity said:
On 21 Sep at 4:36 pm
I find it hilarious when professional companies (or whatever) can’t make proper use of our own language. It really is sad.
Jem said:
On 21 Sep at 4:39 pm
Mike: I’m not saying that’s what it means, I’m saying that’s how it reads to me.
Meggan said:
On 21 Sep at 6:26 pm
No, it does sound weird. I’d have written something like, “Opera has removed its licensing fee for the browser, as well as the banners found within the browser.” Something along those lines.
Kathleen said:
On 21 Sep at 6:45 pm
I agree with Meggan’s phrasing. Or perhaps dividing it into two sentences. Opera has removed all the banners found within our browser. Also, we have removed our licensing fee for Opera.
Jessica said:
On 21 Sep at 11:30 pm
I would definitely reword it to: “Opera has removed the licensing fee as well as the banners that were found within our browser.” Or something along those lines hehe.
Stephanie said:
On 21 Sep at 11:38 pm
I just find it somewhat strange that they just gave away free codes and now it’s simply free. Now I can’t gloat that I got it for free a little while ago. :(
patty said:
On 22 Sep at 6:44 am
grammatical errors from a company? Shame on them!!! Mozilla… *sighs* it messes up my pages. (bad coding :P that’s my problem) I usually use internet explorer, but I’ve downloaded mozilla as well.
vinnie said:
On 22 Sep at 12:20 pm
I dont think you are being petty Besides firefox rox the party. I wont ever turn to opera or IE
Jennifer said:
On 22 Sep at 4:00 pm
lol,thats,pretty,funny. firefox,rocks =| . im,a die hard fan too
Jem said:
On 22 Sep at 4:01 pm
You trying to take the piss? :P
Brenda said:
On 23 Sep at 6:53 am
Oh, finally. :D The current version of Opera I have installed has so many ads that it’s annoying me. (At least, the ads seem a lot compared to the ad-freeness of Firefox) Luckily, I only use Opera to test my designs. :P
Jamie said:
On 23 Sep at 9:31 am
I don’t use Opera either unless I’m checking cross-browser compatibility.. firefox here. That reads wrong to me as well . Sometimes I just don’t care but it really bothers me when people don’t capitalize correctly and use punctuation..! However, I’m a big fan of the dots “….” I use them all the time.. Probably too much! *AHEM* I love your site design…always have. I considered wanting to review for your review site but I don’t think I’m qualified enough, yet :)
tabii said:
On 26 Sep at 10:02 pm
I always see things like that on public signs and other advertisements for businesses. Even our lease has crazy misspellings and grammar. If I was getting paid to write something, I’d damn sure write it correctly.