Syntax, Grammar, Errors

Yes, people judge you in case “ya gramuh ain’t no good”

Syntax, Grammar, Errors: 3 words that go together way too well. — Having just added one of my newly discovered blogs, I wanted to show you how hilarious the “Oh - you - dumbass - you - messed - up - your - syntax - so - ridiculously” - blogs turn out to be. As I said on the blogroll page (the link archive that you surely love to browse), you have to visit that page every once in a while, since it has some crucially educational aspect*. I love the entries and more importantly the famous “Oh-I-can-do-better”-comments. Here’s the background story. The Indianapolis Star used the phrase “the couple are getting married…”, but in strict US English it obviously seems to be wrong (UK would work fine). Notice the comma-affair in the parenthesis (This kind of made me remind of the Beistrichtesting [how-to-put-commas-correctly-testing] we had to cope with last year in high school). Cheeky that is, I know.

samkay64 said… But the Indianapolis Star is not in England. It should use the singular for band, group, and family. (Does my second comma annoy you? I can’t help it; I love it!)

Read more syntax errors and grammar mistakes on grammar-syntax-errors.blogspot.com!

Another lovely blog: The “BLOG” of “UNNECESSARY” Quotation Marks — Speaking of mistakes in syntax, people just love screwing up. Here’s also a page that teaches how to use them correctly.

UPDATE: Being a blogger it can help you to polish your “professionalism” (I bascially couldn’t resist on that one, but quotation marks seem right to me) when obeying the rules of punctuation. Read this blog entry on copyblogger.com

* This very blog entry seems to have way more educational value that former <insert class name of the entire Oberstufe>. NOT.