5 times “smart” copy swung into graveyard humor

What do tea, Fabulous app, Stravinsky, Italian pasta, and Grammarly have in common? Awkward English.

Rita Kind-Envy
UX Collective
Published in
4 min readApr 11, 2024

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You’ve probably heard of the r/Engrish thread, where people collect awkward use cases of the English language. I’m one of these collectors. But instead of making fun of misspelled words, I collect UX copy gone wrong.

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I'm a UX writer who mostly writes about writing. Sometimes I write about other things, though.