Grammar Nazis Untie

[Basher]

I have sexdaily…

I mean dyslexia!!!

 

[Mij]

 

[Methane Herder]

You misspelled Lysdexic.

As one of my English professors would say "It was a unconventional spelling ".

MH

 

[Methane Herder]

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Great movie, great car and nothing says get of my lawn like a M1 Garrarnd pointed at the old brain pan.

MH

 

[Colt556]

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That’s more Hood than Walmart. You have your opinion and I have mines!

 

[Cameramonkey]

Great movie, great car and nothing says get of my lawn like a M1 Garrarnd pointed at the old brain pan.

MH

Yeah. Thats one of those movies I watched once and really enjoyed. But I'm not sure I want to watch again. So many emotions in that movie. And not all good ones, so the urge to watch again isnt strong.

 

[snorko]

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interestingly the pronunciation of "ask" as "axe" may be found in the Canterbury Tales.

 

[ditcherman]

There’s the overuse of apostrophes, then there’s a few around who seem to always use some kind of single backwards quote as an apostrophe.

Spelling “axel” for “axle”. I get it, car guys or people selling trailers ain’t rocket surgeons or brain scientists, but come on.

 

[actaeon277]

If you are a Grammar Nazi, (or just want to get better at punctuation) this is a good book:

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

https://www.amazon.com/Eats-Shoots-Leaves-Tolerance-Punctuation/dp/1592402038/

Wiki:
The title of the book is a syntactic ambiguity‍—‌a verbal fallacy arising from an ambiguous or erroneous grammatical construction‍—‌and derived from a joke (a variant on a "bar joke") about bad punctuation:

A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

The joke turns on the ambiguity of the final sentence fragment. As intended by the author, "eats" is a verb, while "shoots" and "leaves" are the verb's objects: a panda's diet consists of shoots and leaves. However, the erroneous introduction of the comma gives the mistaken impression that the sentence fragment comprises three verbs listing in sequence the panda's characteristic conduct: it eats, then it shoots, and finally it leaves.

I have that book

 

[hopper68]

Theme song for this thread.

 

[JettaKnight]

I have sexdaily…

I mean dyslexia!!!

I think you mean "sexlexia"

 

[JettaKnight]

There’s the overuse of apostrophes, then there’s a few around who seem to always use some kind of single backwards quote as an apostrophe.

Spelling “axel” for “axle”. I get it, car guys or people selling trailers ain’t rocket surgeons or brain scientists, but come on.

Or a lack of. People don't seem to understand possessive. Brother's wife is different from brothers wife.

 

[JettaKnight]

That’s more Hood than Walmart. You have your opinion and I have mines!

Perhaps he was being PC.

Either way, it's something that grates on me.

But in 1000 years from now, who knows? Language changes.

 

[AndreusMaximus]

That’s more Hood than Walmart.

I didn't know there was a difference...

 

[Lmo1131]

Real hoosiers warsh em.

We worsh ‘em.

 

[Brandon]

I may not know what "there " to use, or how to spell correctly, but remember A) I'm the guy who builds your guns & B) I just charged you $300 for a ten dollar part.

Aint it nice?!

 

[DoggyDaddy]

There’s the overuse of apostrophes

Frank Zappa disagrees.

 

[Nazgul]

True story:

I moved to Southern Indiana and started working for a Forklift Company in Louisville. One of my first service calls was to a new industrial park East of the city. One of the service techs was telling me how to get there and he said "You take exit # ?? and go to the far tar and turn right".

Not speaking Southern English very well I had him repeat "far tar" several times without a clue what he was saying.

Finally the parts manager stopped laughing long enough to tell me it was FIRE TOWER .......Sure enough, there was a fire tower at the exit.

Don

 

[ditcherman]

Or a lack of. People don't seem to understand possessive. Brother's wife is different from brothers wife.

People’s leaving them’s out bug’s me less’ than the overuse’s.


It hurt me a little to write that.
I looked for the stupid backwards apostrophe but it’s not on my phone.

 

[ditcherman]

It’s happening again, everybody hold on!

Also, Frank Zappa being involved seems appropriate.