UGH! Calling the grammar police!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, are you a douchebag or a douche-bag?

I wrote ya'll earlier. It was a typo and not because I don't know proper apostrophe use. I don't proofread my messages compulsively before I post them and I generally tend to get by with minimal typos. If you've got the time to proofread everyone's messages, though, you should consider a hobby.

BTW, my SIL is an editor. She tells me that most people who criticize other people's IQ's for the hell of it have low IQs and do poorly on math tests. Studies have been done.

Cite the studies then.

[Anonymous]

There is a tree.

They're (they are) going to look at the tree.

Their (possessive form) tree is really tall.

[Anonymous]

In addition to the low IQ's, these critical individuals have also been proven more susceptible to clinical depression, instances of severe paranoia and even, in rarer cases, clinical reverse-dyslexia. It can be fatal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, are you a douchebag or a douche-bag?

I wrote ya'll earlier. It was a typo and not because I don't know proper apostrophe use. I don't proofread my messages compulsively before I post them and I generally tend to get by with minimal typos. If you've got the time to proofread everyone's messages, though, you should consider a hobby.

BTW, my SIL is an editor. She tells me that most people who criticize other people's IQ's for the hell of it have low IQs and do poorly on math tests. Studies have been done.

Cite the studies then.

No thanks. OP should spend a few hours searching for them. And OP never answered: are you a douchebag or a douche-bag? Seriously, I want to make sure I am being grammatically correct when I call you by name.

[Anonymous]

Fock!

[Anonymous]

your rood

[Anonymous]

"We ate three pizza's"

HATE this use of apostrophes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, are you a douchebag or a douche-bag?

I wrote ya'll earlier. It was a typo and not because I don't know proper apostrophe use. I don't proofread my messages compulsively before I post them and I generally tend to get by with minimal typos. If you've got the time to proofread everyone's messages, though, you should consider a hobby.

BTW, my SIL is an editor. She tells me that most people who criticize other people's IQ's for the hell of it have low IQs and do poorly on math tests. Studies have been done.

Cite the studies then.

No thanks. OP should spend a few hours searching for them. And OP never answered: are you a douchebag or a douche-bag? Seriously, I want to make sure I am being grammatically correct when I call you by name.

I'm neither. I am, however, a member of the Facebook group called "I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar." (I also understand the correct usage of the hyphen and think the answer to your question above is obvious if you care to use the term, but that is beside the point.) As a former editor myself, I am left with only one conclusion: the organization for which your SIL works does not have a fact checking department. I am interested, however, in your assertion that by commenting on someone's grammar one is actually commenting on the person's IQ. That is quite (not quiet) a fantastical leap. By the way, ya'll is a very common misspelling of y'all; I almost never see it used correctly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, are you a douchebag or a douche-bag?

I wrote ya'll earlier. It was a typo and not because I don't know proper apostrophe use. I don't proofread my messages compulsively before I post them and I generally tend to get by with minimal typos. If you've got the time to proofread everyone's messages, though, you should consider a hobby.

BTW, my SIL is an editor. She tells me that most people who criticize other people's IQ's for the hell of it have low IQs and do poorly on math tests. Studies have been done.

Cite the studies then.

Doubt that "for the hell of it" would be part of the criteria for a valid study but maybe for an informal survey among friends of PP's SIL.

[Anonymous]

"I am, however, a member of the Facebook group called 'I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar.'"

Is there a similar yahoo group?

[Anonymous]

Look, I'm an English lit major with too many advanced grad degrees for my own good, who was raised by an English teacher, and my job entails a great deal of writing - I'm in policy so supposedly it matters that my writing is clear and correct.

Sometimes when I reread my posts I'm shocked at the mistakes I've made (subbed "there" in for "their" for example).

Most people type up these things while doing or thinking of 100 other things - I dash it off and hit submit. I'm much more careful in real life.

When I see other's mistakes I just assume they are doing the same thing. It's not a business e-mail or something. It's just an anonymous forum for moms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I suspect the op is as old as dirt.

OP, how would you describe yourself? I always wonder what kind of people are part of the grammar police force.

[Anonymous]

"OP, how would you describe yourself? I always wonder what kind of people are part of the grammar police force. "

The losers in high school. The grammar police force gives them power they never had in high school and now they can attack the Queen Bees on this board. It's called pay back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I suspect the op is as old as dirt.

OP, how would you describe yourself? I always wonder what kind of people are part of the grammar police force.

Somebody who makes $500K a year and still turns heads when she walks down the street, even if the kids are with me. Sorry, no granny glasses and ratty cardigans here.

This thread was started for people as a place to vent about the typos so that they were not commenting on the posts themselves, as I have been tempted to do. For those who think we are being jerks or feel the need to defend errant posts, perhaps you should go hang out over on the DC Dads forum. I here thay luv visitors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I suspect the op is as old as dirt.

OP, how would you describe yourself? I always wonder what kind of people are part of the grammar police force.

Somebody who makes $500K a year and still turns heads when she walks down the street, even if the kids are with me. Sorry, no granny glasses and ratty cardigans here.

This thread was started for people as a place to vent about the typos so that they were not commenting on the posts themselves, as I have been tempted to do. For those who think we are being jerks or feel the need to defend errant posts, perhaps you should go hang out over on the DC Dads forum. I here thay luv visitors.

You understand what is being conveyed so why are you bothered by errant posts? Are you somehow not happy even with your $500K income, apparent attractiveness and children?