For being a grammar web site (WHAT? SPEAK PLAIN ENGLISH, MAN), you really don’t know how to use commas. I see comma splices rife throughout your blog. They should be semicolons (SHOULD THEY? THE BEST WAY TO FIX A COMMA SPLICE IS TO START A NEW SENTENCE. SEMICOLONS ARE OVERUSED.) Anyway, if this weren’t a grammar web site, I wouldn’t really care, but it was funny to see (CHILDISH VERBAGE). Maybe, if you (WOULD!) be so kind as to look over your comma/semicolon misusage (< IS THAT A WORD), you can (COULD – CONDITIONAL!) rectify the problem. It’s a word to the wise I suppose.

Between you and I, guys, I have a variety of pet peeves that I’d like to conservate about with you. One is about all the people on the Net who have never cracked a linguistics textbook in their lives, but yet who go ahead, irregardless, and set themselves up as “grammar” experts.

Of course alot of the time — nearly always, actually — they harp on endlessly about matters of no importance whatsoever. Misplaced apostrophes and other misspellings (that are often just typos anyway)are particularly popular for some reason.

Another thing that brasses me off is those Americans (it’s an American obsession in particular) who keep complaining about “comma splices”. The finest writers have all used comma splices since the year dot, and will go on using them. It’s a non-rule that scarcely makes more sense than the non-rule about never ending sentences with prepositions.

And did I see someone somewhere talk about “genitives” in English…

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.

Elizabeth