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.
Is a temperature of -70° C less or more than -80° C? I ask because of something I read in a news story about the mountain range under the Antarctic ice sheets. The story reads, “Conditions are brutal; temperatures can go down to more than -80° C.”
Could they go down to -85°C? (Yes.) Then would not that be less hot than -80°C, and, therefore, should not that sentence read “temperatures can go down to less than -80°C”?
If you’ve not heard or read about the Toronto Star copyeditor who took umbrage upon learning that the Publisher was outsourcing the newspaper’s copyediting duties to outsiders, well, here is the document. The Torontoist has all of the juicy details.
Whose, Jane. Whose! Sound it out. “The kid who is Kindle at [WTF!?] his homework . . .” Make sense? No!
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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