grammar

When a person asks another how the latter is, or how he or she is doing (which is, by the way, a greeting in essence; not a literal question), it is commonplace for the recipient to respond with, among other options, “good” or “well.”  Read More »

I thought, perhaps, I was a little critical in my last post. I recently saw a post regarding grammar and spelling on the internet, and I thought I would shed some light on what to do and what not to do, seeing as how all I did was complain and gave absolutely no constructive criticism.  Read More »

Your atrocious spelling and lack of punctuation and capitalization makes me want to pull my eyes out with my bare hands while screaming, "Go back to your freshman English class, you moron!"

I feel like that a lot of the time.  Read More »

Raise your hand if you have ever made a vocal utterance and someone responded, “That’s not a word.” I have. I had an English teacher once who circled words in one of my papers and wrote “Not in my dictionary.” This brings up a very interesting yet not easily resolved issue: what makes a word?  Read More »

This entry was sparked by a conversation I recently had with a friend. He made several spelling and grammatical errors in one instant message response, garbling his intended meaning and causing me to correct him. He, obviously, became irritated and told me that grammar was "stupid" and that it doesn't matter- you can figure it out. This attitude disturbed me.  Read More »

(Hey kids! I know there's posts like this floating around, but from what I've seen no one seems to be listening, so I'm throwing my hat into the ring!) Ever since the Scholarship Contest kicked back into gear, there has been a dramatic increase in posts and commenting....  Read More »

Hi! Welcome! This is my new blog.

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[I'm the first to admit--sometimes I'm a bit of an angry writer. In this case, apparently I was too angry. Thusly, this post has been somewhat edited for content in order to abide by ProU's Terms of Service. If you'd like to see the original post, you can find it here, in my more personal blog. Also, for the sake of posterity, I've marked the edits using asterisks. Anyone that's read the original post will notice some pretty drastic differences.]

I am just so, so fed up. I'm sick and tired of this nonsense, and I don't want to deal with it anymore. What's more, I know other people out there feel the same way.  Read More »