Posted on 04/03/2010 5:09:52 AM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
I was recently reminded of how our Grammar and other, um, correcting Free Republic members - beloved as they are - are invaluable to our growth as individuals and as Free Republic posters....
(see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2485902/posts?page=5 post 3 and 4 for that latest reminder...)
Anyway, Joel Schnoor of Apex, NC, has written this blockbuster book (a sleeper best selller) that I want to recommend to all Grammar "Police" here on Free Republic and those who "grow" from their corrections, um those marvelous teaching moments.
Um well consider the two minutes time that will benefit you eventually.
Did you get the part about the correct use of “may” and “can”?
Yes. LOL! Apparently you missed the sarcasm. But I still want my two minutes back.
Did you just end a sentence with a preposition??@!!
HA! Oh did you put the /s on your post - and if not, do you think I can read your mind???? Even if I could, well, my mind needs all the help it can get....so do the /s in the future if you want me to get it...
:-)
ping
Well....no offense. But if you have to put /s on it, especially given the topic, it’s not worth it.
What drives me crazy is that I see that transposition EVERYWHERE. I just saw it in a widely acclaimed history book that I was reading, by a well known history professor. I see it in pretty much every car and bike magazine I read, in history magazines, in instructions for how to put together a (name your favorite "some assembly required" item). I see it in MSM articles I find here that were written by "professionals".
I can love it, I may love it, I do love it! LOL!
One of the things that particulalry irks me is how some writers will use phrases that they HEAR incorrectly
e.g., For all intents and purposes.
I have seen this used as “for all intensive purposes...”
Also, “I should of gone shopping today.”
Instead of, “I should HAVE gone shopping today”
Sadly, I have seen this done on FR posts...
OH, you mean it’s not, “For all intents and purposes”???
Yes, if I don’t go shopping for clothes today, I know I will be saying tomorrow, “I should HAVE gone shopping.”
Thanks for your input.
My very favorite is the use of “YOUR” versus the use of “YOU’RE”.....
Your slip is showing because you’re wearing a skirt that’s too short!
(for instance).
Love it!
Very good! So do I (love it!)
I hate the misuse of ‘then’ and ‘than’, drives me nuts.
No offense taken.
I hope it clears up that big mystery about the meanings of their and there.
My problem is not grammar.
It is TYPING.
Back in the day, typing was not a requirement in the College Course. People bound for College were not expected to know how to do anything as mundane as “Typing”! LOL!
That was for the girls in the BUSINESS COURSE.
So, Like Driving, Motorcycling, Reading Music, Piano, Guitar, html, Russian, Audio Engineering, CuBase, Pro-Tools, and Music production, I taught myself TYPING as well!
Ha Ha.
Oh my goodness!!!! Wow!
Well how in the world did you teach yourself typing?
I took a typing class in summer school of the 7th grade.
Little did I know that that course would serve me better than any other course I took throughout all my school years!
(Hey, I want to take up piano again - something I tried for about a year and a half - and was good at it - but I quit because of being so painfully shy about performing in front of people for the recitals I had to do... What do you advise is the best way to do that at my old age?)
Yes it does!
But don’t believe the Grammar skeptics.
They and their friends say don’t go there...(don’t go to I Laid An Egg on Aunt Ruth’s Head).
But I go there all the time to get answers to all their pesky grammatical questions.
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