Grammar Gestapo
Oct. 28th, 2004 03:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
naruki_oniI have learned from much painful experience not to be a total ass when someone shows a genuine inability to type correctly. But the occasional typo or grammar/spelling mistake is still fair game, when discussed amiably. And flagrant and unrepentant offenders deserve whatever crap they catch from me or others.
That said, here is a place to note things that tick you off, or at least make you go "Hmm..."
This post was inspired by the repeated misuse by one poster of "whom" where "who" would have been correct. I say that as one whom [sic] has occasionally been guilty of such mis-usage, but the glaring errors are painful to ignore. ;-)
That said, here is a place to note things that tick you off, or at least make you go "Hmm..."
This post was inspired by the repeated misuse by one poster of "whom" where "who" would have been correct. I say that as one whom [sic] has occasionally been guilty of such mis-usage, but the glaring errors are painful to ignore. ;-)
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Help, help, I'm being defenestrated!
Date: 2004-10-29 03:34 pm (UTC)I think a lot depends on how much authorial "style" is appropriate to a particular piece of writing. It would be too jarring if all the different reporters at, say, the New York Times adopted their own pet spellings of words and proper names.
I'm not sure that the choice between valid spellings is simply a matter of personal style. But on this point, I'm willing to admit that you may be right and I may be wrong; I'm just too lazy to keep hashing it out publically. *g*
Woo hoo!
Date: 2004-10-29 06:07 pm (UTC)Hey, who are you calling unqualified?
Date: 2004-10-30 11:53 am (UTC)