Grammar Nazi Goes Off

TheMercenary · 03-28-2010, 03:52 PM

ZenGum · 03-28-2010, 05:45 PM

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.

TheMercenary · 03-28-2010, 05:47 PM

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

monster · 03-28-2010, 07:00 PM

I'm sending this to my copy editor friend

Aliantha · 03-28-2010, 10:18 PM

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

monster · 03-29-2010, 07:29 AM

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

DanaC · 03-29-2010, 09:41 AM

I laughed.

Nirvana · 03-29-2010, 10:29 AM

I LoLed I hope that guy never goes to FB!

Carruthers · 03-29-2010, 10:51 AM

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

Sundae · 03-29-2010, 10:53 AM

He spelled Arse wrong anyway

Urbane Guerrilla · 03-29-2010, 12:56 PM

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.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-29-2010, 07:14 PM

To all the grammer grannies....

Carruthers · 03-30-2010, 08:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

To all the grammer grannies....

Please tell me that was intentional.

Sorry. Couldn't resist!

glatt · 03-30-2010, 08:24 AM

This period is unnecessary.

DanaC · 03-30-2010, 08:02 AM

*applauds* nice one Bruce.

03-28-2010, 03:52 PM	#1
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Grammar Nazi Goes Off http://twitpic.com/1b8kba

03-28-2010, 05:45 PM	#2
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	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. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

03-28-2010, 07:00 PM	#4
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03-28-2010, 10:18 PM	#5
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	There are actually quite a few grammatical and punctuation errors in that passage. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

03-29-2010, 07:29 AM	#6
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Well don't stop there, go ahead and point them out! __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

03-28-2010, 05:47 PM	#3
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Someone else pointed out what they thought were some mistakes on another forum where I found it. I LoL'd.

03-29-2010, 10:29 AM	#8
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03-29-2010, 10:51 AM	#9
Carruthers Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Buckinghamshire UK Posts: 4,059	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

03-29-2010, 10:53 AM	#10
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	He spelled Arse wrong anyway __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

03-29-2010, 12:56 PM	#11
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	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. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course. Last edited by Urbane Guerrilla; 03-29-2010 at 01:03 PM.

03-29-2010, 07:14 PM	#12
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	To all the grammer grannies.... Attached Images __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-30-2010, 08:24 AM	#14
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