First grocery store I ever saw that didn’t instruct “x items or less” instead of “fewer.” 10,000 grammar respect points earned.
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posted 1 / 8 / 2011
First grocery store I ever saw that didn’t instruct “x items or less” instead of “fewer.” 10,000 grammar respect points earned.
There is a pedant on your staff who spends far too much of his time searching for split infinitives. Every good literary craftsman uses a split infinitive if he thinks the sense demands it. I call for this man’s instant dismissal; it matters not whether he decides to quickly go or to go quickly or quickly to go. Go he must, and at once.
(via Trevin Wax: Don’t Believe Everything You Learned In English Class)
Actually, my first spelling was “blonde,” but the Firefox spell-check didn’t like it, so I changed it. Turns out it is valid either way:
blond
–adjective
1. (of hair, skin, etc.) light-colored: the child’s soft blond curls.
2. (of a person) having light-colored hair and skin.
3. (of furniture wood) light in tone.
–noun
4. a blond person.
Bygone Bureau picks the winners for the arguments that matter most. Love this.
YES! FINALLY! of the Day: Spotted at Trader Joe’s by Tim “Of Legend” Schafer, who hopes this is “the first volley in… a great war against ‘less.’”
via superpunch
When the polar bear who swung both ways met the manic- depressive grizzly at a support group for “bi polar bears” each learned a lesson about the importance of hyphens.—
private hat tip (via fyeahgrammar)
I cracked up when I read this.
Know what I mean.
Fixed.
Know what I mean.
The term “grammar nazis” taken literally.YES YES YES YES YES.
This is the best thing…the internet has ever produced…today, July 15th, 2009. I’m a big fan. For the next 20 minutes I’m going to watch this video over and over and over, and will then send it to all of my friends, and will then quote it repeatedly for the next four days (“You guys are like some kind of grammar authorities or…some kind of grammar…strict police…Dammit!”).
Hooray for re-dubbed historically mis-contextualized ‘grammar nazi’ jokes. This is epicly wonderful.
100% dittos. Apologies for the (subtitled) language. This was too great not to reblog.
From a company email sent not five minutes ago.
How can someone manage to graduate with a degree in Human Resources and not get basis plurals correct!?
This one blows my mind. Totally unacceptable.
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