Posted on 09/17/2012 8:07:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
bump
50 days to judgment day
My High School English teacher would have ripped the first sentence to shreds.
Come on, fellow conservatives. Let’s write clearly and well.
Lets make sure that arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave gets his eviction notice.
Yeah, instead of outdid, the author should have written outdone.
Kirstan was on Bill Hemmer’s program this morning, and she was basically making the same comments.
Who stole Kirstan’s libbrain and replaced it with a commonsensebrain?
If she keeps this up, the Libs will pull her membership card.
I’m a high school English teacher and I concur. “may have outdid,” lol. It’s a nice, juicy run-on sentence.
I heard Kirsten Powers on XM Serius Radio on the way home from dinner last night and couldn’t believe what I was hearing. The liberal powers-that-be (no pun intended) will probably slap her silly today and she’ll go back to spewing the same leftist drivel she usually spouts from now on. But, it was refreshing while it lasted.
I done noticed that myself.
We still actually have English teachers in high schools?
This comment is from a grandmother who still diagrams sentences when reading. And is able to spell, write and speak in complete sentences in spite of surviving grades 4-8 in a two-room schoolhouse. Two teachers with two grades each, plus 2 bathrooms. And horror of horrors, our 7-8th grade teacher was Jewish and we actually sang Christmas carols from a tiny booklet.
Well congratulations to Kirsten Powers for speaking the truth. She is right on in her remarks. Can’t believe she said it but...she IS right on! Good job Kirsten. I have a new respect for you for speaking to what is right and in defense of Freedom of Speech.
Hey, she was probably very nervous in putting out her views on this. Give her a break. Sometimes I get so emotiional and type so fast that I make mistakes too. We All DO!!!So what?
I would think the message right now is much more important than an incorrect word. When such a powerful message from someone like Ms. Powers who is usually opposite from my view I personally accept it and admire her defense of our Freedom of Speech.
I have been making this point for years. People continually say "Why don't the Republicans fight back?" What they do not see, is that when the Republicans fight back, the MSM refuse to publish/print/broadcast it.
I cringed at “may have outdid”.
And, well...what?
Surprisingly, even in elementary and middle schools. My daughter just started HS this month, and she has been correcting my writing for years! It's actually amusing, because I've been doing it to her father for years! of course it is not so amusing when she does it to me on FaceBook! Both her friends and mine get a big kick out of it - especially my friends from HS who had the same OCD nun as an English teacher who drilled diagramming into us!
All of us could benefit from a good editor looking over our shoulders.
I guess I am just stupid.
If I get the message I could care less about the syntax.
It seems like Townhall.com has no editors. This is the second article from them today that has horrid grammar.
Come on guys, Google apostrophe and see how to use it. Don’t give the other side ammo like this. You’re asking for the messenger defense against your arguments. They’ll say ‘look at their writing, there are several errors per paragraph in that piece; you can’t trust anything they’re saying if they can’t even use fourth grade grammar’.
I totally agree.
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