I love this!

This here at http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/02/la-belle-dame-sans-merci-falliero.html both amuses and saddens.

Lee picks and chooses who will be the targets of her vitriolic grammar and punctuation pedantry. She makes no comments about the author's grammar, style and punctuation alternatives although she has condemned others for similar choices. I think Lee is no better than those who cut her off after a three-minute time limit while letting others run over. She rails against their inconsistencies and is just as guilty.

I have corrected the author's comment. Both of you need to see the teacher after class.


Lee

I have been reading our your - shoddy proofreading blog for a year , place a comma before a conjunction introducing an independent clause - Strunk and White Rule 4 and I am certain you would give my Principal principal - no capital for this common noun quite an earful. I doubt this person would understand most of it though.

So if I told you the name of this person, and you sent the blistering missive, where would that leave me? This person is vindictive and mean spirited.

I thank you for taking the time to read my original message and will continue to enjoy your blog. Knowing your scrutiny of grammar and punctuation, please be gentle with me. dangling present participial phrase - The sentence is imperative; therefore, the implied subject is "you". The subject is not knowing the scrutiny. Recast as Knowing your scrutiny of grammar and punctuation, I ask you please to be gentle with me. I would hate to be graded on that.

Thanks



My dear, you should not let little, mean people like your principal cramp your spirit. He or she is nothing but a bully.

Your grammar is perfect; ditto punctuation. If you want to see some bad grammar and punctuation from a guy who holds a high position in the publishing world, go to tampabayareagrammargrinch.blogspot.com and read my analysis of the publisher of the SP Times's pitiful grammar and punctuation. It will give you confidence to think better of your skills. lee

Perfect grammar and punctuation? I think not.

Scholorship

From http://http//grammargrinch.blogspot.com/2008/02/elias-poison-spreads-throughout-schools.html

>Ms. Elia's bachelor's-degree college in New York state had grammar-and-punctuation errors on its home page when I checked it. This is not a good sign that Ms. Elia's alma mater is a hotbed of scholorship.<

I don't think that anyone (especially a teacher with experience of 28 years) who can't spell "scholarship" ranks fit to judge where is or isn't a satisfactory place to learn.

>The board is just as prostrate before Ms. Elia’s ukases as the teachers were. On the podium, it always seems to me that the board regresses to some age at which the designated adult, Elia, has the power. <

What is "it"? The word has has no antecedent. This is the kind of felony against which Lee rails.


>I'd like to slap those young first- and second-year teachers silly for participating in the punishment of older colleagues by taking the jobs that the principals and department heads removed from teachers such as Bruce for protesting the extra class. They are ingrateful, short-sighted little twits. lee<

Hypocrite. Lee bleats about freedom of speech for everyone and freedom of choice for those wanting an abortion. Don't first- and second-year teachers have the same freedom to make their own choices? What would Lee say to the crazies who say that women having abortions are not grateful for the gift of life or are being short-sigshted for not realising they are snuffing out an entire lifetime? Ingrateful, shortsighted, pro-choice twits? I know who the real twit is.