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If you've seen The Social Network, you know Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg isn't a bundle of joy.
And like most people in an authority role, Zuck feels like it's his God-given duty to make every moment a "teachable" one, even if it's simply giving an employee a gift for Hanukkah. Noah Kagan, an early employee at Facebook, received the classic grammatical book "Elements of Style" from Zuck, with a little note from him inside the cover.
From Kagan's ebook about Facebook:
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There was a common thread weaved throughout the way things were done [at early Facebook]: an unbreakable set of "laws." I still vividly remember these six laws...[One was] Fix it...NOW! Periods and commas are everything! Attention to detail, grammar and ease of use are the most critical things on the site. I even got an early Hanukkah present from Mark, the book Elements of Style by Strunk and White.
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Unfortunately for Zuck, when making his point about punctuation, he forgot "grammar" isn't spelled "grammer." Check it out:
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Zoomed in for emphasis:
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