War of the Grammar Nazis.
That bastion of intellectual nabobism, the New York Times, has posted this article about the book Eats, Shoots & Leaves. This book, which is purportedly written by a British woman who is "fed up" with grammar errors in daily life, may be a hoax according to the NYT, which lists a number of errors within it. Where will it all end? Who are we to believe? Who knows when they run across a comma-free non-restrictive clause and what to do about it (if anything)? Besides, the book is written in British English, which has its own grammar rules different from American English. If math worked this way, 2 + 2 would equal 4 in America and 5 in Britain. It appears that grammar is more art than science, like so many things.
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It still stuns me that people with a high-school diploma (or even in high school, for that matter) can't tell the difference between "you're" and "your" and other basic stuff like that that I learned in second grade.
Cute new account, BTW. But one of these things is enough for me.
-- Jason
One is enough for me too, but I like this one better.
Hey, read some fan fiction if you really want to have your grammar eyes opened. Yeesh.
--Kathy
Why is there nobody who wants to be a fan fiction editor? Every tenth person who wants to write fan fiction should have to be an editor instead, and forced to learn proper grammar (there are nuns for this sort of thing). That'd learn 'em.
Anyway, if you look at my links list to the left there, it's using a feature called blogrolling. I have a link in my browser toolbar and when I want to add a site to that, it adds it automatically. This is the kind of cool geeky stuff you can do at Blogger that you can't do at LiveJournal. Well, I couldn't figure out how to do it at LiveJournal anyway.
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