This just needs repeating...

That last picture is wrong. It's not Grammar...it's spelling. At least they could use the right word.

 

They did.

 

Even after a two-year "vacation," you haven't changed a bit. :down:

 

This is about to be in heavy rotation around the office. Heavy rotation. Thanky kindly, Johnny.

 

The worst part is that I know you're serious!

 

Yeah, that felt a little like pouring gas on a fire just now. I didn't not like it...but I'm not sure it was healthy.

It doesn't take long to correct them, and you really can't blame them too much--I read contracts, agreements, and professional email that don't get apostrophes right. I've had people argue with me about this. I'm not kidding.

I'm not above naming names--that was a Notre Dame grad. So not a Yale literature grad, yeah, but for $40,000 a year...well, I hope his parents asked for some of their money back.

 

I think the message is flawed, though. Most people who don't know their shit don't seem to know they're shit either.

 

...and that's what they pay me for.

Edit: yeah, they usually don't know what they did wrong, but I think the cartoon is a very nice way to terrify them into searching frantically though whatever it is for little green squiggles, getting admin to proof it again, etc. Plus, I mean, it's coming from me. It's not a matter of if they did something wrong, just what I caught. Henceforth, this shall be my grammar indicator. I like it very much.

 

Have you guys read the thread that went BALLISTIK? That would take a grammar platoon to fix.

 

You know at first this thread literally peaked my interest. But now I could care less about it. I'm barely phased or effected by y'alls senseless rambling.

 

Another gripe, "literally" peaked your interest? Versus what? "Figuratively" peaked your interest?

 

affected, y'all's

 

F.U. all!


Is that correct?

 

Whoosh.



And BTW, if you're going to go through the pointless exercise of correcting the "mistakes" in his post, it's piqued.

 

Shit, I missed that, fazed and couldn't!

 

Dude, you haven't seen a verbal train wreck until you've seen Team Pepsi Suzuki's old posts on the NEAR List!

 

I didn't have enough courage to post on NEAR. Like the BARF forum out West, it is a pool of sharks circling in the heated blood of virgin babies.