Grammar Gestapo

[naruki_oni]

I 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. ;-)

Comments

Re: Ich get it nicht

[saminz.livejournal.com]

Heh. That was meant for eventual german speakers, no need to worry. But I'll explain. An "Ossi" is a person from the eastern part of germany (OSTdeutschland), as opposed to the "Wessi". The terms are slightly derogatory, but not outright mean. These people talk all kinds of weird dialects, and they tend to add this "d" at the end of "eben" - which means "just", more or less, not in the sense of Justice, but as in "just the way it is". It does NOT belong there (this "d"). Nonetheless, slowly but steadily, it sneaks across the borders and turns up in more and more places... Pfui Geier: Literally "Ack, the vulture" - just a little expression of genuine disgust :-). Good enough?

Gut! Danke.

[routermg.livejournal.com]

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