I have to hand it to Kevin Hayes for writing one of the funniest, tongue-in-cheek abuses of grammar to ever appear on National Grammar Day. I give him a pass and proclaim him “Winner” because he wrote “Worster” and “Worstest” intentionally and to drive home a point (so to speak).
Grammar pedants like me and my colleagues find joy in pointing out the mistakes of others (sometimes we’re nice about it), but we have our inside jokes and appreciate intelligent displays of bad grammar. [Yes, there is such a thing, but you'll have to wait until my yet-to-be-written book is published before you know more.]
As for Sen. Assburn Ashburn, I simply say this: he who protests the loudest needs to come out of the closet.
I was searching this textbook rental site for a Logic course I’m taking. This is not the kind of textbook I was expecting! But, it looks like a fun class!
Notice anything about this Popular Mechanics article? Hint: someone played fast and loose with good grammar.
I hope you’ve sent your cards and gifts, friends. Today is the big day!
Write well (not good), write often (not alot), be careful (not carfull), and check your work twice. Just to be safe, have someone else read it. Bad grammar can cost you!
Deanne Schulz tipped me to a story from 2006 (before this blog’s birth). It’s just as timely today. Globe and Mail reported a story about a grammatical error that cost Rogers Communications (Canada’s AT&T) more than $2 million CAD.
Rogers had signed a contract with a company known as Aliant, Inc. to string communications lines across thousands of poles in the Maritimes. Rogers would pay Aliant about (aboot in Canadian) $9.60 CAD for each pole. Rogers was happy.
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IMHO, you’re an idiot.
by Jeff Puthuff on January 9, 2010 · 0 comments
in Grammar, Language, Spelling, Stupid comments
I love it when people offer up their humble opinions with the careless regard for spelling and grammar as evidenced by “crazyflanger” over at Consumerist.com. Listen, if you can’t form coherent sentences with appropriate syntax and correct spelling, I don’t care about your IMHO. [But keep at it because I need more fodder for this blog.]
“I don’t know a lot . . .”
At least you didn’t type “alot.”
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