In the Marple Crossroads Shopping Center, there is a stored named this: GIANT BOOK WAREHOUSE.
As an English major in college, I have a snide, elitist chuckle at their expense every time I read it- if they only knew... But I wonder EVERY time I pass it- do they sell giant books or is it a giant warehouse FULL of books?
Working in a college athletic department has it's ups and downs- something I use to pass the time is making comments to coaches and students when they misuse grammar and/or punctuation. In a recent comment post on Tursi's blog, I note:
"I've been reading some of what my student athletes write on some applications for a training I'm doing- good God- Tursi, thank you for being able to string a sentence together. When I read the goodness of your blog and others, it's so fluent and easy...when I see misplaced punctuation and out of whack grammar...my eyes/head/heart hurts."
Yesterday I read an email from a colleague- sometimes we get transfer students in. It went something like this- (but not exactly, I don't want to embarrass anyone ;-)
"WHEN did we find out about this one??????? Another transfer???? I don't see her on the website!!!!"
When I saw the person later I remarked, "were you really surprised/upset by that transfer notice? I was really caught off guard by your gratuitous use of punctuation..."
He replied with something along the lines of, "uh, no, I just, well, you know....(trail off into silence.)" Exit stage left, me, feeling like a jerk. Okay, so it's not acceptable to comment on people's grammar habits, I suppose. A little gauche, if you will. Whatever, these are people with advanced degrees, I don't really think it's out of line.
Another personal quirk: I refuse to use commonly accepted texting-type. I have a qwerty keyboard on my phone. I'll use it to it's fullest, thank you.
Good writing is something I take COMPLETELY (I use caps when I want a word to stand out) for granted. I read and reread my blog and make constant edits- but for what? I think I have three or four readers. I think the answer is that I do it all for the former eighth grade English teacher in me...
As an English major in college, I have a snide, elitist chuckle at their expense every time I read it- if they only knew... But I wonder EVERY time I pass it- do they sell giant books or is it a giant warehouse FULL of books?
Working in a college athletic department has it's ups and downs- something I use to pass the time is making comments to coaches and students when they misuse grammar and/or punctuation. In a recent comment post on Tursi's blog, I note:
"I've been reading some of what my student athletes write on some applications for a training I'm doing- good God- Tursi, thank you for being able to string a sentence together. When I read the goodness of your blog and others, it's so fluent and easy...when I see misplaced punctuation and out of whack grammar...my eyes/head/heart hurts."
Yesterday I read an email from a colleague- sometimes we get transfer students in. It went something like this- (but not exactly, I don't want to embarrass anyone ;-)
"WHEN did we find out about this one??????? Another transfer???? I don't see her on the website!!!!"
When I saw the person later I remarked, "were you really surprised/upset by that transfer notice? I was really caught off guard by your gratuitous use of punctuation..."
He replied with something along the lines of, "uh, no, I just, well, you know....(trail off into silence.)" Exit stage left, me, feeling like a jerk. Okay, so it's not acceptable to comment on people's grammar habits, I suppose. A little gauche, if you will. Whatever, these are people with advanced degrees, I don't really think it's out of line.
Another personal quirk: I refuse to use commonly accepted texting-type. I have a qwerty keyboard on my phone. I'll use it to it's fullest, thank you.
Good writing is something I take COMPLETELY (I use caps when I want a word to stand out) for granted. I read and reread my blog and make constant edits- but for what? I think I have three or four readers. I think the answer is that I do it all for the former eighth grade English teacher in me...
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I don't like that FB comments don't have the Edit option. I hate making a grammatical mistake i.e. hipp/hippo and not being able to automatically correct it.
Oh yeah- my boss - Editor of prominent Ivy League publication says "irregardless." It makes me want to weep.
Shannon- I feel SO embarrassed in facebook statuses when I make mistakes. It makes me want to put a scarlet A as my profile picture to hide the shame.