What a brilliant idea! School kids in Brazil have been learning English by correcting the grammar and spelling of celebrities on Twitter. According to Buzzfeed, the leading English school in Brazil started having their 8 to 13 year old students correct tweets from celebrities and the kids call themselves the Celebrity Grammar Cops. The kids send very polite corrections to many famous people including Rihanna, Sylvester Stallone, Justin Bieber, Charlie Sheen, Miley Cyrus, Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian etc. Many celebs have been corrected for using were instead of we’re. Kim Kardashian and her whole family consistently use “I” when they should use “me” (example: “Bruce took Khloe and I out to dinner.”) Many fans have commented on the corrective Tweets but no celebrities have ever responded. Above is a video about the Grammar Cops:
Example:
Justin Bieber @justinbieber
Some video games. Some old movies… That was a long bus ride. But we here. #sleep
1:04 AM – 7 Apr 13
Red Balloon @redballoonBR
Hi, @justinbieber! My name is Maria, I’m 9 and I’m a fan from Brazil. Watch out: it’s “we’re here” not “we here”. : )
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well, to be precize: HE IS FROM North Korea.
There is a larger point here that JC stumbled into from this cut n paste.
Bieber and the ghetto rapper and Ebonics bunch have ruined the language of America and kids don’t know how to speak or write a complete sentence. Call them out for just what they are…just like the 50% of BLACK women who have and spread herpes.
And this is gossip and celebrity news?!
Not really, Lisa. It is just cut n paste from other sites or press releases that is posted and on which advertising is sold.
TMZ made a fortune in this business and JC hope to follow….but you see the result.
I hope they don’t stop just a grammar and maybe guide him in behavior too.
Shocked this no talent hack can even spell his own name, oh right, isn’t he the one who said Sixteenth chapel??
“Bruce took Khole and I out to dinner” actually IS grammatically correct. Substituting the “I” with “me” will make it sound too much like valley girl slang.
Ghetto trash!