Grammar Nazi Goes Off
 

:lol:

http://twitpic.com/1b8kba

Imma let u finish, but that dude left of some fell stop's.

I'm going to see if I can use that in the writing centre at work.

Yes, we do spell centre that way.

:) Someone else pointed out what they thought were some mistakes on another forum where I found it. I LoL'd.

:lol: I'm sending this to my copy editor friend

There are actually quite a few grammatical and punctuation errors in that passage.

Well don't stop there, go ahead and point them out! :lol:

I laughed.

I LoLed I hope that guy never goes to FB!

I wonder if the writer would care to let us have his thoughts on the following:

(i) alot

(ii) aswell

(iii) abit

Those drive me to distraction.

Carruthers:mad2::mad2::mad2:

He spelled Arse wrong anyway ;)

Yeh, it's fun. So, streaming the consciousness, from top to bottom of the ranting screed, writing as I read:

That "...doesn't fucking mean 'look out, here come's an S'" may be deliberate -- but probably shouldn't have been. There is the proper usage in "doesn't" to consider.

"Your/you're" section does need copyediting to clean sentences up and restore them to grammatical virtue. Taking him at face value, Our Ranter Here does at least know the difference, and all the time. How many examples of stumbling on just this point can we point to in these fora? How echoing is the lack of excuse for it? O.R.H. seems to think staying awake in elementary-school English class to be a good thing. I find it hard to disagree. Clear Writing = Clear Thought.

"It's/Its" -- right if rude. I'd critique this section as being insufficiently developed, contenting itself with only a relevant example, and not putting forth the rule on possessive forms, let alone determinative pronouns as well: that possessive nouns take the apostrophe, while possessive pronouns, to avoid confusion with their soundalike contractions, do not.

The comma spacing problem I have never seen. Fat-finger on little tiny Blackberry keys? In elder days there was a convention (in typesetting anyway) of spacing before a semicolon as well as afterwards. So sayeth Eats, Shoots, And Leaves. Sounds like it used extra paper. I still double-space between sentences, but upon posting that extra byte is the one edited out... onward, ho-ooo.

"There/Their/They're" -- gotta sympathize; it torques me. Somehow it seems posters in their mid-teens err there the most. And then they're determined to stay as ignorant about it as when they arrived. It's a lousy day when you don't learn something new. It's a suck day when you refuse to.

Nothing to say about "Then/Than" except maybe "nice fonts." The words don't sound that much alike. Half-rhyme, at most. Couldn't substitute the one for the other at the ends of lines in a sestina. (A somewhat mechanically difficult verse form in English, having been devised in Romance-language country for those languages.)

He could have gone on, but O.R.H. seems to have spent forty-five minutes to an hour relieving the pressure of his spleen with the composition, and it may have seemed enough. Imagine the fun he could have had appending a section on what we could start calling the Diners' Au Jus and its poor handling in menu copy... Yes, redundant prepositions abound. There's such a thing as being too innocent of French.

To all the grammer grannies....

*applauds* nice one Bruce.

Shouldn't it be mother-fucker? :rolleyes:

Please tell me that was intentional.:3eye:

Sorry. Couldn't resist!

This period is unnecessary.

Missing a period?

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:lol:

They may know grammar but nothing of graphic design

Can't say I agree with Bruce's flowchart.
One of the main reasons I find the Cellar home is that it is populated by literate people. Yes, we all make mistakes - I find hideous ones in my old posts all the time (serves me right for being vain enough to reread them) - but there are very few genuine mis-spellings or grammatical howlers.

Also, people are pretty much laid back in pointing them out, unless someone is being insufferable. We are happy to accept our dyslexic posters; the question "Do you understand the post?" applies very much so in those situations. We're adult enough to understand that poor spelling does not equal low intelligence.

I know now and then people will come around and all us cliquey and intolerant. But even without being in the Treehouse Club I don't think that is true. Decent place, indecent people. Damn, off to the tagline thread for a love-in.

What the hell kind grammar is that? :p::lol2:

Be-typoed. One C would fix it.

I can't say I'm much bothered by grammatical errors, or indeed spelling mistakes. As long as it is clear what the poster is trying to communicate, it matters not a jot to me.

Language is communication: if it successfully communicates what it is intended to communicate it has served its purpose just fine.

youre pants on fire

No they ain't!

I'm not saying I don't notice these things. I do. From time to time they may even jar a little when reading something. But overall, I honestly am not bothered. I don't think it's that big a deal. As long as someone gets across what they're trying to say then why would it be?

but but but what I said was you are pants when you're on fire. :p: ;)

Din't not.

I think that rant runs through my head when PMS and pre-menopause meet :P

PMS and pre-menopause meet? You're lucky you don't spontaneously combust. :haha:

I think just STFU sufices for most of the gammer nazi mofo's... you know, a general "fuck off" usually sufices..

Suffice would suffice better with both its F's, merc. Super Copy Editor strikes again!

The meet... is roasted.

One f sufficed, two would have been optimal, but I think he should be applauded for his community spirit, given how many people have been telling him to eff off recently

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Non-sequitur post does not follow

I had an incredibly hard time reading that....'nuff said. :)