Kabumpo did nothing wrong.
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Exactly. Sloppy composition is a distraction and diminishes the power of one’s writing to convey ideas. I appreciate it when another FReeper corrects me about usage.
Also, I really think it is a bad idea to use the word “Nazi” like this, as it tends to weaken the horror that that word invokes. How about “grammar cop”?
Thank you, Bigg Red.
Seeing these types of errors bothers my eye the way the sound of a sharp note played instead of a flat would bother the ear. I also find it mystifying, because until I joined FR I never encountered such a quantity of people - who appear to be educated and intelligent - who didn’t know how to make a noun plural. Where does this using the apostrophe at the end of a word come from? Is this what American public schools have been teaching?
And to those who would call me a grammar Nazi - if I wrote that 12x100=1.2O wouldn’t you say something if I kept putting decimal points were none were called for? I hope so, because I’m terrible at arithmetic. So if I did, and you did, I’d thank you, not call you a math Nazi.