Irregardless, Grammar is our Friend

[batmom]

You want to know how big a geek I am? I rewrote a chain letter before sending it on (yes, I know that there's a special place in hell reserved for me but it was a panty pyramid and I was in dire need of some new undies). The original wasn't as clear as it could be. That's my only excuse.

And I only got two pairs. I was promised 36!

[Mugsy]

A panty pyramid? Clearly, I have not lived.

[Deleted]

Hey, consider yourself lucky. I got NONE! My best friend (who sent it to me) got one pair and they were from me. I want my 36 pairs of underwear, too!

[batmom]

I spoke too soon. I got a new pair yesterday. They're boy brief style from Lululemon. I'm in heaven!

[tinyshoes]

I never even got a panty letter. Now I'm jealous. You can never have too many panties.

Back on topic, I have been known to point out the grammar errors on restaurant menus (but not in a snotty way-- I want my food clean, thank you). Those places are ripe with superfluous apostrophes.

[underjoyed]

Back on topic, I have been known to point out the grammar errors on restaurant menus (but not in a snotty way-- I want my food clean, thank you). Those places are ripe with superfluous apostrophes.

Restaurants are also rife with gratuitous capitalizations. I swear, they seem to be as random as the decimal places in pi.

Just a week or so back, I managed (or so goes the theory held by a beer-deprived friend) to ruin my pub-quiz team's chances of winning a prize of beer for the best team name by meticulously correcting the grammar mistakes on the sheet of quiz rules handed out at the start.

Any thoughts on whether it is now considered acceptable to begin sentences with a conjunction ("And" or "But")? I always grew up thinking that it was a no-no in formal writing (as opposed to when I post on this forum, because I'm sure I'm guilty here), but I get the sense that I may just be old-fashioned on this one. Mind you, I also refuse to split infinitives. Hairs? No problem. Infinitives? Nope.

[sumire]

Last week I saw an egg truck that said "Fresh eggs. Everyday." So when I want special eggs, I better go someplace else, huh?

And then I got my new Entertainment Weekly, and right there, in big red letters, the ad for the Lois & Clark and Wonder Woman DVDs said "WATCH THEM SAVE THE DAY EVERYDAY[.]"

Every day is TWO WORDS unless you're using it as an adjective, you morons!

"These are my everyday clothes. I dress like this almost every day."

[colette]

What it really boils down to is this: we're not hear to debate the merits of bottled water, but rather to decide which we could more easily live without -- bottled water or Angelina Jolie.

From the newest celeb vs. thing on FT. Ah, sweet schaden.

[hobocamp]

I noticed that too, Colette. Hah!

This is a really creepy letter to Mariah Carey but I'm posting it here for its ridiculous overuse of quotation marks. Holy crap, guy.

[ganymede]

batmom said:

You want to know how big a geek I am? I rewrote a chain letter before sending it on (yes, I know that there's a special place in hell reserved for me but it was a panty pyramid and I was in dire need of some new undies). The original wasn't as clear as it could be. That's my only excuse.
(snip)

I'll emerge from my chronic lurker status to admit that I frequently red-pencil spelling/grammatical errors in my local newspaper, cut out my red-penciled articles and/or (gasp) headlines, and mail them to the editor of said newspaper.

Heh. Can't stop the snark, I suppose.