Posted on 07/28/2012 8:48:38 PM PDT by garjog
t used to be we thought that people who went around correcting other people’s grammar were just plain annoying. Now there’s evidence they are actually ill, suffering from a type of obsessive-compulsive disorder/oppositional defiant disorder (OCD/ODD). Researchers are calling it Grammatical Pedantry Syndrome, or GPS.
Maybe you’ve heard of the grammar gene—its technical name is the FOXP2 gene—which may be responsible for a variety of grammatical ills, such as the inability to construct compound/complex sentences or to effectively deploy the passive voice. Now there’s evidence that a variant of that gene, FOXP2.1, may actually cause us to obsessively correct other people’s grammar, or should that be, to correct their grammar obsessively? The discovery of this gene, alongside new evidence from fMRI scans of brains exposed to real-time grammatical errors, has led some scientists to predict that soon we may be able to find a cure for GPS, for many sufferers a debilitating, off-putting, sociopathic syndrome.
(Excerpt) Read more at illinois.edu ...
Being concious of grammer makes one suseptable to being the company "proofreader". But it beats having the company put out something that sound like it was written by a 6th grader....
Indeed, you wouldn’t want to sounds like that. ;)
Sounds like a good idea, given what the Wikipedia says:
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Of course, you could just turn off your spam filter, and remedies would flood your inbox.
Frankly, I could care less is my advise!
I suffer from Grammatical Pedantry Syndrome (GPS). I object to the use of ‘there” to mean “their” or “they’re,” and I refuse to use words such as “prequel” (the correct term is “antecedent” or “precursor”).
> What is the name of the illness suffered by people who
> invent acronyms?
AD or Acron’s Disease.
What about proactive in place of... GASP! anticipatory?
Reminds me of one particular obnoxious drunk who floats by on a daily basis
displaying an amazing amount of OCD/ODD on a very narrow range of topics.
Laughably predictable behavior to the point of being an almost sure bet.
The grammar tie in to OCD/ODD is like the cherry on the icing on the cake
concerning this person.
Interesting indeed.
> . . . I refuse to use words such as “prequel” . . .
pre·quel [pree-kwuhl
noun
a literary, dramatic, or filmic work that prefigures a
later work, as by portraying the same characters at a
younger age.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/prequel
I used to know a gay bicyclist like that. I called him a pedaling pedantic pederast.
Listening to Zappa play Apostrophe, I am reminded that the main component of our language is call and response.
It is the basic element in any language.
English is special because of all it’s nuances that allow us to convey philosophical data.
Math is a language that allows us to convey technical data.
Having said that, I believe most of us get the gist of a conversation even if the comma is misplaced.
When a decimal point is misplaced it is a huge error of exponential proportions but even then, most of us get the gist of it.
-PJ
> I’m shocked that some people don’t know the difference
> between ‘their’,’there’ and ‘they’re’.
And “thar” as is “Thar she blows!”
Teachers cannot teach what they, themselves, have never learned. Our teens and young adults are part of a lost generation. They can text and tweet but cannot legibly write a paragraph punctuated correctly containing complete words which are spelled correctly.
Thar is a fine word!
My pet peeve is the expression “pet peeve”!
BTW I don’t understand folks who object to “sangwich”
Its just an Italian American colloquialism.
The book Punctuate it Right is always at my desk. As for correcting grammar,.the Brits have a solid case against us Yanks.
Yeah right!
Dem cockney rejects got it awwright! LOL
> BTW I don’t understand folks who object to “sangwich”
What are you in for?
Convicts from nearly any racial and ethnic background are
now commonly found using this particular word.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?defid=907380&term=Sangwich
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