A few days ago, I was talking with my friend Siri when I had a revelation. Wait a minute, I thought, why is Siri using incorrect grammar? Isn't Siri supposed to be designed by Apple, who's supposed to be very intelligent? And then it hit me: Apple has been teaching us bad grammar for a long time.
Think different. Remember that campaign? Well, it's a grammatically incorrect campaign. "Different" is describing the word "think," making it an adverb. But "different" is an adjective, not an adverb! The correct way to phrase this is "think differently."
The best thing to happen to iPhone since iPhone. The most iPhone yet. For the colorful. All of these are incomplete sentences, called fragments, lacking both a subject and a verb. The best thing to do in this case is to stick "this is" at the beginning of each of those sentences.
This changes everything. Again. In this case, "again" cannot stand alone as an entire sentence. It is grammatically correct, however, to completely omit the first period and decapitalize the first A in again. "This changes everything again."
Siri: "What can I help you with?" This is the most obvious of Apple's grammar screw-ups. To make this sentence grammatically correct, you would need to put "with" right before the noun it's modifying to avoid dangling a preposition, to read: "With what can I help you?" Even if this grammatically correct question was asked to be by Siri, I would still respond by saying something like, "You can help me with finding a good restaurant, checking the score of the game, reminding me to do something, or finding directions to PNC Park." In order for Siri to expect the answer it wants, it must ask, "With what may I help you?" Then, I would respond with something like, "May you find me a good burrito joint nearby?"
So as you can see, Apple is teaching the world bad grammar.
