Fun with grammar

I still say good grammar costs nothing, but I have to also say that I love what this guy has to say:

Five big things grammar Nazis get wrong.

Or watch it here:





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National Grammar Day!

It's National Grammar Day and I'm celebrating! Today I am wearing one of my favourite t-shirts: Good grammar costs nothing! (I'd give you the direct link to buy your own, but www.glarkware.com is down at the moment.) So go out there today and rescue an abused apostrope or a pair or unnecessary quotation marks, stand-up for the semi-colon, and speak out for the supremacy of the serial comma!

Remember, folks, "I" is the subject, while "me" is the object. If I catch you using the former when you should use the latter today, I will strike you with my GrammarStickTM.

You know, it's true.

White people do like grammar. ;D

A friend sent me that link today and I had to share it. The whole blog cracks me up and this post is particularly dear to my heart. Because--dammit!--the Oxford Comma is never optional in my world!

He also sent me this. He really knows me far better than I realized.

Exerpts

There are a lot of exerpts to read on the Samhain Cafe. Today esp. since tomorrow is release day, but lots in general. I don't read many because I know what I like and if I can tell from the blurb that something's not my bag, I skip it. No harm, no foul. Only there was a title the other week that I thought might be cool and fun, so I started reading one of the two posted exerpts. ... The author lost me with one word. One stinking word. ::sigh:: I hate that. I can't entirely blame them, or anyone else, when something truly tiny just shuts me right out of an otherwise good read. On the other hand, when it's something I consider very basic and simple and easy to get right, I can't help but get a bit pissy about it. Of course that leads me to wondering if or when I might be making the same piddly sort of mistakes. Gods, I hope I don't, but there's the fatalistic part of me that figures it's inevitable. I suppose it's one of the advantages to writing in a fictional universe though; I don't have to know the dialect-specific quirks and turns of phrase of another region than my own because all the regions I write about are inside my wee brain. I'm making them up and they can talk any way I want. They still need to be consistent, but no one else can say, "Hey! No one from CityXYZ would ever say that!" because, hey, my city, my rules. ;)

Am I the only one who goes whacko about tiny shit like this? Seriously. I know I'm a grammar freak and other things where language is concerned, but I can't be the only one. Can I?