Damn near fits his politics.
When the Grammar Nazi's strike!
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Damn near fits his politics.
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My standards are higher than those of most who complain about others' spelling or grammar. I guess I just lack that gene which causes some to forever inflict themselves upon others for no reason other than to gratify their own ego.
My standards are higher than those of most who complain about others' spelling or grammar. I guess I just lack that gene which causes some to forever inflict themselves upon others for no reason other than to gratify their own ego.
That second sentence must be a run-on. I read it five times just to make sure
Funny you mention a "gene". I cannot spell for shit. I've only seen "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader" a few times, and I don't know if I've ever missed a question. Just saw a preview last night: Spell "hieroglyphics".
I would have shit a big Egyptian brick.
My degree is in English. I'm published (if circulations of 800 count). That part of my brain just never developed. Couldn't spell my way out of a wet paper bagg.
Beware of The Purple Grape of Wrath!
STILL speaking of genes, and grapes, was looking through "Science News" tonight, well, this morning I guess, and learned this:
Humans have 22,333 genes. Grapes have 30,434.
What the fuck?
RJD is a higher being. I always suspected this.
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My standards are higher than those of most who complain about others' spelling or grammar. I guess I just lack that gene which causes some to forever inflict themselves upon others for no reason other than to gratify their own ego.
That second sentence must be a run-on. I read it five times just to make sure
Yeah, my sentence structuring is horrific. I blame too much Douglas Adams as a child.
My standards are higher than those of most who complain about others' spelling or grammar. I guess I just lack that gene which causes some to forever inflict themselves upon others for no reason other than to gratify their own ego.
That second sentence must be a run-on. I read it five times just to make sure
Yeah, my sentence structuring is horrific. I blame too much Douglas Adams as a child.
No, I meant I tried, but couldn't find anything wrong with it. It's like Hemingway in reverse.
But that would have been deliberately bad spelling, not deliberately bad grammar, which wouldn't make as much sense.
Well, since we're talking about informal usage and not "bad grammar" anyway, I don't suppose that really matters.
Besides, "Nazi's" is bad punctuation, not spelling
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^ EDIT: For example, I have no idea what an infinitive is, let alone how to split one.
Ah, well I wouldn't know since I never learnt the formalities of such things. I write as pleases my eye, matches my train of thought, and is expedient. Not always in that order. The only complaint I get often enough to take note of is that my prose is too flowery, so I've never given it too much thought.
That second sentence must be a run-on. I read it five times just to make sure
Yeah, my sentence structuring is horrific. I blame too much Douglas Adams as a child.
No, I meant I tried, but couldn't find anything wrong with it. It's like Hemingway in reverse.
Ah, well I wouldn't know since I never learnt the formalities of such things. I write as pleases my eye, matches my train of thought, and is expedient. Not always in that order. The only complaint I get often enough to take note of is that my prose is too flowery, so I've never given it too much thought.
Well, since we're talking about informal usage and not "bad grammar" anyway, I don't suppose that really matters.
Besides, "Nazi's" is bad punctuation, not spelling
Perhaps we are talking at cross purposes. That was my point, that misspelling "grammar" wouldn't be ironic in a thread about bad grammar, because it would be a spelling mistake not a grammatical mistake.
Bad punctuation, which is grammar, would be ironic. Which leads me to believe that he did it on purpose.
Well, since we're talking about informal usage and not "bad grammar" anyway, I don't suppose that really matters.
Besides, "Nazi's" is bad punctuation, not spelling
Perhaps we are talking at cross purposes. That was my point, that misspelling "grammar" wouldn't be ironic in a thread about bad grammar, because it would be a spelling mistake not a grammatical mistake.
Bad punctuation, which is grammar, would be ironic. Which leads me to believe that he did it on purpose.
Yes, I'm was just being difficult. I'll quit.
But I do disagree. The reason? He's obviously been corrected enough times to feel he needs to start a thread about being corrected. That bit of assumptive reasoning leads me to believe it was an honest mistake, not a deliberate one.
I agree with 99% of what you said, but these examples have perfectly sound grammar in AAVE.
Well, since we're talking about informal usage and not "bad grammar" anyway, I don't suppose that really matters.
Besides, "Nazi's" is bad punctuation, not spelling
Perhaps we are talking at cross purposes. That was my point, that misspelling "grammar" wouldn't be ironic in a thread about bad grammar, because it would be a spelling mistake not a grammatical mistake.
Bad punctuation, which is grammar, would be ironic. Which leads me to believe that he did it on purpose.
Yes, I'm was just being difficult. I'll quit.
But I do disagree. The reason? He's obviously been corrected enough times to feel he needs to start a thread about being corrected. That bit of assumptive reasoning leads me to believe it was an honest mistake, not a deliberate one.
But apostrophising a plural is the most heinous and oft corrected grammatical error, which leads me to reject your stance in the belief (perhaps hope) that not even the OP could make such a tragically untimely error.
Yes it has, in what was quite the fun thread, and sticks out in my mind simply because I started it.
And it happened before that, and before that, and before that.
But no worries, last big one I remember was a year ago. I think breaking this subject out once a years is pefectly fine.
If anyone is interested, it was a fun thread. Check it out!
http://trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=113291
Sure, that's fine. But I don't assume "black" when I hear those. If you're grading papers are you going to skip on by "hisself"? All things being equal on two job applications, are you going to choose "I seen the man hisself" over "I saw the man himself"?
Just because something is perfectly common in a dialect doesn't qualify it as formal or even standard usage.
I'm with the Grape on this one. I am aware of the importance of maintaining good grammar (and spelling) in my professional and everyday life, as otherwise it makes one look unprofessional, untidy, uneducated, and unable to find a decent spell- and grammar-checker.The exceptions are when it is for stylistic and ironic reasons, but of course these exceptions prove the rule.
I'd be happy to let anyone correct me because of my grammar mistakes, just so that I don't make the mistake again in future. You might say it is the sort of pedantry up with which I am willing to put.
Most of the time, language is only a means to an end in terms of giving an idea to another, and that doesn't require perfect grammar. Communication isn't a formalism; it's an expression, which doesn't have strict rules. What's most important (and often all that is important) is that a person is understood.
To digress from that purpose with grammatical pedantry can appear as though effort is being directed into the wrong thing, and that can be a little insulting to the speaker because you should be thinking about what they're telling you, not getting caught up with the immediate irrelevancy of their spellings and the like.
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