Arrgh, redux

[featherynscale]

Of absolutely no interest to anyone but me, just noting my own degeneration and decline.

Yesterday afternoon, I wrote "you're" in a post, when I meant "your". And I didn't notice it until this morning.

That's it, I'm going to have to hand in my grammar police badge now.

Comments

[damonite.livejournal.com]

It's ok, you'll probably just get a warning and maybe some training, but I don't think they'd fire you right out, I mean it's not the grammar nazis or anything. ;)

*Fweeet!*

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Flag on the field; illicit use of the word 'Nazi' without proper capitalization.

The Grammar Referee

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[damonite.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. I use a cheap defense that I don't respect the tenets of National Socialism enough to capitalize them... Ah... Anyone buying this? Nazis... I hate these guys!

[zylch.livejournal.com]

Did you edit it? It looks right now.

Oh yes, and you said "who" when you should have used "whom" on the Gaia list, as in "I don't know whom I'm supposed to snark at."

Heh, I may have just failed Greek, but at least I know English fairly well :)

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I did, in fact, edit it. But then I thought that was cowardly, so I had to post about it.

And shouldn't it be "I don't know at whom I am supposed to snark"?

*sigh* It's probably time to give up on the whole self-examination/fault-finding thing, or I'll be committing ritul suicide by the end of the day.

So, in other news, the midterm didn't go well?

:sigh:

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

Intellectual elitism just isn't what it used to be.

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[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

And, as a bonus, I typo'ed "ritual" in the above response. I give up. I will cease communicating with people immediately.

*sigh*

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[zylch.livejournal.com]

Is "to typo" a transitive verb?

Dear gods, we're disgusting... but at least I feel smart again :)

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[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

It's a post-modern feminist verb. Like "to priestess" or "to aspect".

I'm working towards my initiation into wymmyn's wycca, and I have to be able to demonstrate my skills in reclaiming nouns and making them into verbs, that I may raise awareness of the innate action/process qualities in all things. We'd credit this development in language to Buckminster Fuller and his seminal work "I Seem to Be a Verb", but he's one of those icky penis-people, and besides, then we'd have to say "seminal". Ew.

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[zylch.livejournal.com]

::speechless::

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[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Behold, the power of snark. :)

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[triadruid.livejournal.com]

There REALLY ought to be a dot_pagansnark. Some of this stuff is too funny not to share.

[zylch.livejournal.com]

No, the "at" can stay where it is. The whole "One ought not end a sentence with a preposition" 'rule' comes from 18th century grammarians who took the word "preposition" literally, as something placed before something else (fr. 'pre-pono', I place before). So they declared that by its nature a preposition had to come before some other word, any other word, no matter how silly it sounded, but not at the end. It's almost as silly as the 'rule' that one should not split an infinitive. The rationale for that one is that Greek and Latin don't split their infinitives. Well, duh!, they express the infinitive with one word, not two.

This is the sort of pedantic nonsense up with which I shall not put!

And yes, the midterm went poorly as expected. Any time the last sentence you write on an exam is "I'm sorry, I'll stop wasting both our time now," that's not a good sign. Oh well.