If a blogger's rant about poor grammar in published material contains grammar errors, should a reader point them out?
Haven't you killed me enough for one day?
Mal ,'War Stories'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Ginger - May 14, 2013 9:38:06 am PDT #22403 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Jesse - May 14, 2013 9:38:27 am PDT #22404 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
How can you not????? I'm pretty sure it's a Rule, anyway.
Jessica - May 14, 2013 9:40:26 am PDT #22405 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
If a blogger's rant about poor grammar in published material contains grammar errors, should a reader point them out?
It's for their own good! Otherwise, how will they learn?
Jesse - May 14, 2013 9:43:38 am PDT #22406 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hey tumblrs, I'm pretty sure Thursday or Friday is going to be Flawless Ladies Day on the blog (because of reasons), so if you have anyone I should include, send 'em in!
Strix - May 14, 2013 9:45:11 am PDT #22407 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
If they're being smug and self-righteous, it's a moral imperative. Or, yanno, if it's really fucking funny.
Kate P. - May 14, 2013 9:54:21 am PDT #22408 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
lisah, I'm so sorry about Uncle Bud. (I've always loved his name.) He had a good, long, happy life with you.
Man, that micropreemie story is just amazing. I haven't listened to the Radiolab piece but I read all three parts of the story from the Tampa Bay Times at my desk this morning and nearly lost it more than once. It's written by the mother, and she is, incidentally, a wonderful writer. It's a very moving, thoughtful piece.
Ginger - May 14, 2013 10:01:41 am PDT #22409 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Among other things, the rant contains the following, which is chock full of singular-plural inconsistencies:
As a writing teacher, I used to make it clear to my students that while it was certainly important that they have good solid ideas backed up by solid evidence in support of those ideas, they could have the best idea EVER and it wouldn’t be much use if no one could understand it because they were hacking their way through a forest of grammatical errors to get to it.
Strix - May 14, 2013 10:04:01 am PDT #22410 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Also, I had to hack my way through that word forest.
Steph L. - May 14, 2013 10:04:44 am PDT #22411 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Maybe it's meant to be an ironic object lesson?
Fred Pete - May 14, 2013 10:05:30 am PDT #22412 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Ginger, not to mention getting lost in all those clauses.