If someone has a problem with me, I probably don't even know it - or care, if I do. My philosophy is this: Mind your own business and bugger off! But there are some things that I just can NOT let slide...
Bad grammar is one of those things. I DETEST when someone writes or says something so obviously incorrect:
"I never would of thought that my grammar culd bee so offending to peeps who devotes an hour of their time to write a blog post on offending grammar. Its highly unusual. They're should be some kind of rule about this twisted rant on blogger.com."
Or how about this example from a NEWSPAPER...
"Mrs. Shirley Baxter, who went deer hunting with her husband, is very proud that she was able to shoot a fine buck as well as her husband."
So how much did you get for his life insurance, Ma'am? Which was the better kill: the fine buck or the old one?
I'm sure that many of us, living in the country as we do, can relate to this casual experience:
"We spent most of our time sitting on the back porch watching the cows playing Scrabble and reading."
Watch for dangling participles and apostrophes! In the words of one individual well-versed in the balming universe that is grammar, if employed correctly and artfully, "the Grammar Nazis won’t slam you" for inadequacies that are painstakingly amplified in the low moments of Grammar History.
2 comments:
I completely agree! Some of the posts that I read just really grind my gears!
I do role playing online, and I swear half the posters learned english as their second language because the grammar is horrifying. Normally I like to read fiction slowly, pronounciating each word out loud in my head, but when I'm reading the RP I have to skim over it quickly to dull the pain of it.
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