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.
Thank you so much for the info about what to do to learn piano! I don’t have a piano - is it fine to start out with one of these electronic keyboard things?
Now what are Blues Piano Riffs? (Does that mean I will be playing Jazz/Blues? I was hoping to be playing, How Great
Thou Art, ya know? LOLOL!)
Thanks again for sharing these piano-learning secrets and I’ll be in touch as I go down THAT new adventurous path.
What a great way to do recitals! Whooo. How I wish my piano teacher had used that approach.
I remember (I was in the 4th grade) being so nervous, I started crying when my mother spotted a little hole in my sock that I was wearing (we wore white socks and black patent leather shoes - along with my skirt and blouse - the skirt with the crenalins under it).
I also remember while playing Theme from Liebestraum (spelling? and not sure of the title) - that I got stuck in the middle of it and had to start over - but nobody noticed - and I made it through. After that experience, however, I said I did not ever want to have that possibility happen again and that was it for piano. I have always regretted not continuing those lessons. Thanks for renewed hope that I can recover that joyful skill.
LOL - what a neat post! (I am not an official member of the Grammar Police unit here...so I won’t tell them about the run-on sentence...).
Thank you for those added suggestions about the piano thing.
What good ideas!
Yes, practice, practice, practice - that was ANOTHER reason I dropped piano when I was 11. Hopefully I have overcome that aversion to practicing piano.
Thanks for the advice and God bless you and enable you to take that violin out of the case again soon!
I do not like it, Sam I am.
My pet grammar peeve is not very unique.
“You know you FReep too much when:”
I’m listening to XM radio this morning before I get outta bed (putting off finishing the last term paper), and what show comes on? Fibber McGee and Molly . Their whole show is about grammar...and all I can think about while I’m listening to it is this thread!
Fibber trashes the language so badly, and all they can do is go on about “split infinitives” and I’m thinking who even knows or cares about them anymore? And then I remember the kerfluffle when the show writers for LOST said that “whom” was a word not needed anymore.
At that point, I decided God was telling me to get out of bed at the ripe old hour of 5:30 and get the written final project and the oral presentation and the website reviews done. But I couldn’t stop laughing about this thread!
Now, you get up and start playing some Easter Music!! Your family will love the practice. My family would kill me if I got the violin out at this hour!
Average? Um....I think your High School English teachers would be delighted if they could see the posts you make on Free Republic...they are anything BUT average!
:-)
Oh....LOLOL! That’s too funny!
Start playing some Easter music? Well - my “family” is me at this moment in this house - though I kinda sorta think that’s about to change.
Anyway - I gave away the last keyboard I had I think...but I’ll search around to see what I have.
I think your family would come dancing down the hall if you started playing your violin!! LOL
Happy Easter - and Congrats on finishing your term paper!
LOL - !!!!
Oh my - and am I guilty of THAT one....
Happy Easter!
Ha ha ha ha! There you go....
Well, show me some proof - er, evidence - of that.
OH my goodness! I hope Joel is reading this thread and sees your post #48.
Hilarious!!! Thanks for the post.
Every time I think of the title of Joel’s book - I LAUGH!!
(ahem - Aunt Ruth could be moi in s former time....LOLOL).
Pass the word about this remarkable book, although give it a bit more time and a lotta people will know about Aunt Ruth and Joel Schnoor!
ROFLMAO - no comment!
Well, don’t depend on me for gramer correction, unedumacated.
LOL - none of us know (or is it knows?) all the grammatical quirks of our language, do we?
Ergo - the need for I Laid an Egg on Aunt Ruth’s Head!
I understand the book now has a workbook with it and is going to be used in schools all over the country.
It should be used by anyone who wants to learn - and remember - or to have a resource book in which to search for - the “grammar treasures” that we all need to appear as if we understand how to use the English Language to its maximum capacity!
I think Aunt Ruth would be very happy with what her nephew Joel has done!
Joel is a Christian, by the way....Hallelujah, Joel, if you are reading this thread - and Happy Easter to all!
I would have put a comma after your “um”. ;-)
Um, which “um” was that? “-)
You forgot “they’re” in the “there”, “their”, they’re usage roulette.
Since this is a gripe thread I have to say that the use of “loose” instead of “lose” occurs so often that I think its purposely used just to yank grammarian’s chains.
I understand the misuse of “hugh” and “series” but in otherwise “straight” posts the use of “loose” instead of “lose” seems unintentional and thus a common mistake.
Just sayin’ ... ;-)
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