Comments on: Stop! Grammar Time

By: Ailsa

Ailsa — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:58:03 +0000

@Stacy–Thank you for catching the Asterix reference. I knew it looked familiar but couldn’t remember why. My dad had a few of those books when I was a kid, and I found three more at a library sale. I couldn’t bring myself to give them to him until I’d had time to read them.

By: Ophelia

Ophelia — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:20:53 +0000

I third the motion to make “Stop! Grammer Time” into a t-shirt! Good grammar is so pleasing to the ears…

recaptcha: Dr. Earphone. So fitting.

By: Hastings

Hastings — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:09:07 +0000

@ cynthia: “nerdgasm” – I love it

@ julia, I second! that would make a fantastic shirt!

recaptcha: Sandra shakes
My recaptcha is a grammatically correct complete sentence!

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Grammar is for lovers | WordInk — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:45:20 +0000

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By: davevanfunk

davevanfunk — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:04:40 +0000

Ever since I read The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson, I’ve taken great pleasure in splitting infinitives and using prepositions to end sentences with. These two rules apparently were arbitrary applications of Latin grammatical rules. For example, infinitives were not to be split because you couldn’t split them in Latin. Well duh, in Latin they’re one word (e.g. portare = to carry). As for double negatives, I do make a point of teaching that to my sixth graders. Most of them are second language learners, and it helps to sound more fluent. Yeah, yeah, we all know that other languages use them.

By: Julia

Julia — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:51:45 +0000

I think the title should be a new mental floss shirt please! I would def buy one!

By: Anna

Anna — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:49:25 +0000

Big, guilty confession: Even though I’m an English teacher, I’m barely on speaking terms with grammar.

I blame this on the fact that I’m of the generation that decided grammar was an unnecessary evil and espoused “meaning” over it. Translation? I couldn’t tell you what a oblique pronoun does if my life depended on it. And it does. On a daily basis. I just tell my students to study the usage of words and forget memorizing rules.

It’s worked so far.

By: Nerdfury

Nerdfury — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 02:09:38 +0000

Alas, poor Grammar, we knew you well. When children are submitting important essays with lack of respect for even the most basic of English spelling and grammar, the world as we know it has ceased to exist.

By: Evan

Evan — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 01:55:09 +0000

It might be too late. Grammar and spelling, are ded.

By: PartiallyDeflected

PartiallyDeflected — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:55:24 +0000

Too Legit To Split (Infinitives)