Stuff White People Like - Grammar: "it is impossible for a white person to turn down the opportunity to proofread" (lol i may secretly be a white person)
William Strunk's The Elements of Style: "aims to lighten the task of instructor and student by concentrating attention ... on a few essentials"
and everyone's favorite... the oatmeal! motherf'in semicolon; apostrophe and misspelled words with a test
there's lots of fun to be had over at the national grammar day site, but i will fight you on some of this list: Top Ten Grammar Myths
#8 i'm disappointed in Merriam-Webster for allowing this to be added to the dictionary. people, i will red ink this when i proofread your papers (because of course you would ask me to proofread; reference item one above)
#2 is still extremely awkward to me. however (yea, #9!), i've noticed that i'm splitting more in my assignments. i HATE it so that's another red ink
#1 red ink! the point of a paper is to sound pretentious. pretentious snoots don't end sentences with prepositions :p
i realize the list is referring to regular conversations, but some fools like to apply the above to academic work. please don't do it; you just look ridiculous
this ends your grammar lesson of the day. i hope you had as much fun as i did :)
3 comments:
Ahh, the Oatmeal and grammar, two of my favorite nerdy subjects!
OMG...you have just made me sweat again !! I truly hate grammar and writing. Just let me talk !!! As a child and teen I won essay contests and was even accepted to Duke Elligton School of the Arts, Literary and media Arts program. Now as an adult I see them damn red marks, I'm like what happened? I used to know this stuff ! Just an hour ago, I was writing a paper for class and all I could (and couldn't see) was commas, semi-colons, capital letters, proper paragraph flow...nerve-racking (wait is that in the dictionary !!).
haha! loved it. I can't believe that there's an actual day dedicated to grammar. Interesting find :-)
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