They are good sangwiches too!
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.
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It’s not OCD. It’s CDO.
Alphabetical.
As it should be.
I used to have a neighbor who had this bumper sticker on her car:
“Smile! It makes people wonder what your up too.”
Yes, it was spelled that way.
I think I have a manual on the Kings English.
Hold on a tick, I’ll just pop out and get it from the boot of me car.
My former employer had a pile of flyers made for a major medical trade show that had the large print heading:
"YOUR DIGITALS SOLUTION"
The disgruntled sales staff and I had a good laugh about it since we had all figured out what a crooked bunch of idiots we were working for and started looking for better jobs at better companies. Had we not already been thoroughly disgusted by this sort of incompetence that infected the company from the president down, we would have never let the flyers come out of the box.
I have no need for sexual function and haven’t for decades.
I am a product of Catholic schools and have a reasonably decent command of the language - but it will invariably be my 14 year old daughter who will catch my occasional errors....and she is one of your so called "victims."
I have never heard of this term being associated with prison.
Guilty as charged! I ALWAYS have a problem with those two words. It drives me crazy because I know I should not have such a problem.
And no, I don't have OCD. Nor do I have OCD.. I really dont.
Dang! What is that called? Where can I get one??????
It seems you certainly are affected LoL
Just teasing!
Oh that’s just a mortadella and provolone.
The principal approves of this principle.
Don’t toy with me when there is food involved.
You don't know the teenagers I know. It can be rather embarrassing when a 14yo corrects your spelling, grammar, or punctuation. It doesn't happen all that often - but enough for me to take special care if I am having an online conversation with any of them.
Honestly, its just a baloney sangwich.
Not like the stuff they serve today.
Real mortadella and provolone on a toasted bread.
My Mother would send us all off with fried bologna and cheese sangwiches all the time.
Pop demanded it.
It was a lowly sangwich but good.
Though they are made with mustard, We learned early on that pizza sauce made it better,and that iS the way I like mine.
The Mortadella and provolone is a staple in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
LOL!! Good one!
That’s just what young adults do.
She is just stretching her wings and giving you a gentle jibe.
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