Comments on: Return of Grumpy Grammar Girl http://www.mimiboo.net/2008/05/06/return-of-grumpy-grammar-girl/ Mom. Wife. Librarian. Liberal. Yarn Junkie. Tired. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:37:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Mimiboo Too » linky love, and what to do with my night off http://www.mimiboo.net/2008/05/06/return-of-grumpy-grammar-girl/#comment-125 Mimiboo Too » linky love, and what to do with my night off Fri, 23 May 2008 17:13:05 +0000 http://www.mimiboo.net/?p=5#comment-125 [...] Comments erin O on huhSmiley Always on fire sale. so to speak.BR on Return of Grumpy Grammar GirlBR on Mayhem on Our house is a very very very fine [...] [...] Comments erin O on huhSmiley Always on fire sale. so to speak.BR on Return of Grumpy Grammar GirlBR on Mayhem on Our house is a very very very fine [...]

]]> By: BR http://www.mimiboo.net/2008/05/06/return-of-grumpy-grammar-girl/#comment-122 BR Thu, 22 May 2008 13:32:52 +0000 http://www.mimiboo.net/?p=5#comment-122 I thought you would defiantly (heh) enjoy this: http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi-typo-guys-0521may21,0,701362.story I thought you would defiantly (heh) enjoy this:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi-typo-guys-0521may21,0,701362.story

]]> By: lizard http://www.mimiboo.net/2008/05/06/return-of-grumpy-grammar-girl/#comment-62 lizard Wed, 14 May 2008 04:57:10 +0000 http://www.mimiboo.net/?p=5#comment-62 I am so entirely with you. It is fine so "speak" colloquially in writing in an email, for example, but to simply be illiterate is unreadable and annoying. I recall a sign in a hardware store: Key's Made. Every time I drove by it, I thought "what are they made to do?" and it drove me nuts. The random application of quotation marks to emphasize gives me hives, as well. Oy. And on the language arts building? My hives have hives. (see? colloquial speaking type of writing, so I can start a sentence with a conjunction and it isn't horrible. At least not to me). Love the new look. so glad you are back! I haven't been able to see you for days and days. I am so entirely with you. It is fine so “speak” colloquially in writing in an email, for example, but to simply be illiterate is unreadable and annoying.

I recall a sign in a hardware store: Key’s Made. Every time I drove by it, I thought “what are they made to do?” and it drove me nuts.

The random application of quotation marks to emphasize gives me hives, as well. Oy. And on the language arts building? My hives have hives.

(see? colloquial speaking type of writing, so I can start a sentence with a conjunction and it isn’t horrible. At least not to me).

Love the new look. so glad you are back! I haven’t been able to see you for days and days.

]]> By: corinne http://www.mimiboo.net/2008/05/06/return-of-grumpy-grammar-girl/#comment-57 corinne Sat, 10 May 2008 02:02:20 +0000 http://www.mimiboo.net/?p=5#comment-57 Jen, I want to exhort you never to become a professor of English. I think reading the students' daily mangling of English and its proper usage probably would seriously endanger your blood pressure. Meanwhile, rock on, my friend. By the way, unfortunately, "effect" can occasionally be a verb, and "affect" can be a noun, but not for the meanings you point out above. This fact does, however, make your explanation harder to follow for the grammar simpletons. Also, could we discuss the horrible abuse of insure/assure/ensure? Jen, I want to exhort you never to become a professor of English. I think reading the students’ daily mangling of English and its proper usage probably would seriously endanger your blood pressure.

Meanwhile, rock on, my friend.

By the way, unfortunately, “effect” can occasionally be a verb, and “affect” can be a noun, but not for the meanings you point out above. This fact does, however, make your explanation harder to follow for the grammar simpletons.

Also, could we discuss the horrible abuse of insure/assure/ensure?

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