It’s not easy being a grammar wizard.

Posted by Gez on 13th August, 2007

I was recently reminded of this cartoon from the hilarious but ever-so-wrong Perry Bible Fellowship (safe for work but avoid if you are easily offended).

I’ve previously hinted at my dislike for the preposition rule by paraphrasing one of Winston Churchill’s famous quotes (probably misattributed). Nonetheless the cartoon is a funny reminder that if you live by the grammar sword, you die by the grammar sword.

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I totally agree!

Elizabeth

Comment by Elizabeth — 11th May, 2009 @ 3:47 am
Perfect English certainly should be preserved and I bow to you for keeping up the fight!

AND

It would be impossible for me to write humor without breaking the rules. For instance, I write a series of “Wickedpedia” A guy from Southie explains everthin. Drives spell-checker crazy.

Thanks for the effort to keep English in it’s rightful place.

Comment by Chris Radant — 21st December, 2009 @ 6:44 am
For being a grammar web site, you really don’t know how to use commas. I see comma splices rife throughout your blog. They should be semicolons. Anyway, if this weren’t a grammar web site, I wouldn’t really care, but it was funny to see. Maybe, if you be so kind as to look over your comma/semicolon misusage, you can rectify the problem. It’s a word to the wise I suppose.

Comment by Nick — 22nd January, 2010 @ 5:12 am
That line from Chris Radant should read, “Thanks for the effort to keep English in ITS rightful place.” It should not be IT’S. So much for keeping it in its rightful place! HAHAHA!

Comment by Nick — 22nd January, 2010 @ 5:15 am

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