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National Grammar Day is here (It are?)
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| 03-04-2009
| DAN RODRICKS
Posted on 03/04/2009 11:07:10 AM PST by Red Badger
We'll celebrate National Grammar Day with Martha Brockenbrough, author of Things That Make Us [Sic] and founder of the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar, and John McIntyre, director of the copy desk at the Baltimore Sun who runs the blog
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We is all fer it!..................
To: Red Badger
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posted on
03/04/2009 11:09:09 AM PST
by
GeorgiaDawg32
(A democrat will break your leg, then hand you a crutch and take credit for your being able to walk.)
To: Tax-chick
To: Red Badger
You betcha. If your not in favor of well grammar your a looser.
To: Red Badger
I aint got no time for that.
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posted on
03/04/2009 11:10:53 AM PST
by
Sig Sauer P220
(There ought to be one day -- just one -- when there is open season on Senators --- Will Rogers)
To: Red Badger
Not observed in Pennsylvania, believe me!
To: Red Badger
irregardless of whether we like it or not ... no questions axed ... while I drink my expresso ...
It's a loosing battle because their never going to learn ...
(sigh)
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posted on
03/04/2009 11:12:52 AM PST
by
sofaman
(Moses dragged us through the desert for 40 years to the one place in the ME with no oil - Golda Meir)
To: Billthedrill
I’s hear you. Their is a real need for people to study they’re grammar otherwise there intelligence is in question..
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posted on
03/04/2009 11:14:03 AM PST
by
GeorgiaDawg32
(A democrat will break your leg, then hand you a crutch and take credit for your being able to walk.)
To: Red Badger
Their are many who are being upsetted about it’s celebration by less FReepers.
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posted on
03/04/2009 11:14:20 AM PST
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: Red Badger
Card-carrying member of the Coalition Against Split Infinitives and Dangling Participles.
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posted on
03/04/2009 11:15:26 AM PST
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN 1969. St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
To: Red Badger
My favorite grammarian slogans:
I am the grammarian about whom your mother warned you.
All your morpheme are belong to us!
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posted on
03/04/2009 11:15:37 AM PST
by
dawn53
To: Red Badger
We am all for it! It’s way past time! Cant wait to find someone to discuss grammar with.
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posted on
03/04/2009 11:15:53 AM PST
by
Adder
(Proudly ignoring Zero's political stylings since 1-20-09!)
To: Red Badger
I seen this coming for like, ever.
To: dawn53
Careful, your participle is dangling......
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posted on
03/04/2009 11:17:22 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(The Zero has more Chicago Bull than Michael Jordan...................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
03/04/2009 11:17:29 AM PST
by
Ben Mugged
("You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom".)
To: Adder
Never end a sentence with a proposition!...............
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posted on
03/04/2009 11:18:06 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(The Zero has more Chicago Bull than Michael Jordan...................)
To: Adder
Exactly. You should never use a preposition to end a sentence with.
To: ConorMacNessa
hey, if it weren’t for split infinitives, my dangling participle wouldn’t have any fun..:)
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posted on
03/04/2009 11:20:43 AM PST
by
GeorgiaDawg32
(A democrat will break your leg, then hand you a crutch and take credit for your being able to walk.)
To: Red Badger
How are we going to went there? Can we drove or should we flew?
To: Red Badger
My grammer can whip your grammer.
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