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Showing posts with label grammar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grammar. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Saturday, January 4, 2014
Friday, January 3, 2014
It's hard being a grammar Nazi
I find nifty memes on the Internet, cute little quotes and graphics and fun stuff that at first blush I think, hey, neat, I'll use that on the blog or I'll pass it along on Facebook. Then the copy editor personality kicks in, and there's the inevitable face palm. What is so terribly difficult about writing a simple sentence without screwing it up?
This one, for example, should read "Some days the supply of available curse words is insufficient to meet my demands." A space between "some" and "days" and no comma. How hard is that to get right? Too hard, apparently, for the humans behind the Quotesaday.com website.
Head. Desk. I like the thought trying to be expressed in this graphic but do I really want to pass on yet another example of sloppy writing on the Internet?
This one, for example, should read "Some days the supply of available curse words is insufficient to meet my demands." A space between "some" and "days" and no comma. How hard is that to get right? Too hard, apparently, for the humans behind the Quotesaday.com website.
Head. Desk. I like the thought trying to be expressed in this graphic but do I really want to pass on yet another example of sloppy writing on the Internet?
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Adventures in bureaucracy
A fellow employee here at LNA could use some editorial help. (Sorry about the blurriness, but one tends to shoot fast when using a camera in the ladies' room.)
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