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Have A Happy Thanksgiving!
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20 comments:
Happy Thanksgiving to you Pru! Thanks for what you do.
Have a great turkey day!
Hope the mayor doesn't overdue it.
I overdid it on the stuffing for sure.
To PRU and everyone, happy Thanksgiving.
Overdue it?
Does he have books out from the library?
Learn to spell...moron.
.....easy 9:05, take it in context.
Bully!!!
9:05 is clearly overcome by the joy and forgiveness and caring of the holiday seeing.
So overcome, he apparently didn't realize there was, in fact, no spelling error made.
-- but noting one another's "miscommunication" continues with unabated irony.
9:05 sure is sensitive on the subject. Maybe the poster was concerned about the mayors health. Over eating on Thanksviging day is pretty common and I am guilty every year myself!! Maybe 9:05 got bullyish because he was reacting to something else he thought the poster was saying. Who knows. It's sad to see people assume the worse. I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving.
PRU-
"Overdue" isn't a misspelling in that context? Are you saying Anon. 9:05 didn't spell "overdo" wrong, but instead chose the wrong word, like when someone means "you're" and writes "your"?
If that's what you're saying, I guess you're right. Or should I say, "your write"?
M. Anderson --
We write.
The grammar police show up whenever something ticks them off but they can't think of anything else to say.
Grammar errors are important in the context of miscommunication. Those little black scratches on white paper lose their power to convey thought when the people aren't in the same room if we don't at least agree as to what the little black scratches stand for in spoken words. "their" and "they're" are not the same, "overdo" and "overdue" aren't either -- and every word ending in "s" doesn't take the possessive apostrophe before it, even though Spellcheck says so. (In fact, that's how you can tell M. Anderson is literate -- he doesn't rely on the 50% wrong Spellcheck.)
Grammar is important to clarity. And, to paraphrase Mr. White, who wrote a droll little classic called THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE, think of the love affairs broken and wars lost by simple lack of clarity. Think on this, and be clear.
Change of topic.....
I've been on the City website for a half hour now. Can anyone just tell me when yard waste pick up ends?
Anon@3:56 --
Having trouble searching the City's fabulous newly redesigned $19,500 website?
We feel your pain.
And the answer to your question is the week of Dec. 13th.
Anonymous 12:40
Couldn't help myself, but.........shouldn't your post start
" Errors in grammar ", or " Grammatical errors " ?
Just axein'..........
12:40:
Like it or not, with the advent of technology, communications has become less formal than in the past. People generally do not put as much care into an e-mail to a friend or blog post as with a "hard written document". I will admit that there are times I post to a blog, excited to express my point, and do not review document. It is only after my post reaches the thread that I notice my error. My god, have you seen text messages?? I guess you can't count these as spelling errors since they rarely spell complete words. While the errors may bother you, I don't see how in the complete context of what was written, you can say that communication was negatively affected. Whether "their" or "they're" was correct, when you read the sentence you know what the poster was saying - not that that is an excuse. Your points are not incorrect, but if you really find it that irritating your head must explode about 10 times a day!
I don't think there's anything technically wrong with "grammar errors," even if it wouldn't be my first choice. Anon 12:40 makes some good points.
I tend to agree with Anon. 8:42. Everyone makes mistakes. I sure make plenty. It's the people who look back later and still don't see their mistakes that I worry about.
7:56 - "Grammatical errors" or "Errors in grammar" are both better than what I used ("Grammar errors")- too much catalog copywriting which values saving a couple of characters here and there has apparently seeped into my brain. But thanks. Nice catch.
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