http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/12/merry-christmas-to-all.html
>A normal citizen must label such tax-paid junketing as insane abuse of the tax monies that the public pays and thinks they go to the schools and the students.<
This is poorly worded. Who is "they"? Let's remove "pays".
... the tax monies that the public thinks they go to the schools ...
A pronoun and a relative pronoun is a bit excessive.
... the tax monies that the public thinks go to schools.
>I just received a message calling me a “lying bitch.” We must be doing something right. lee <
No. Just lying.
Friday, December 26, 2008
More of Lee's wrong commas
>Wow, woman, you’re as bad as Bush. “Do things American or we’ll bomb the crap out of y’all!” Colour, modelling, metre – all wrong Comma and I’m illiterate, I suppose.<
Rearrange the sentence, moron.
I suppose [they are] all wrong and I'm illiterate.
"All wrong and I'm illiterate" is a compound object. You say yourself that a comma shouldn't separate a compound object. What changed your mind?
Note the difference:
(a) I suppose they are all wrong, and I'm illiterate.
(b) I suppose they are all wrong and I'm illiterate.
In (a) I'm stating that I'm illiterate. In (b) I'm stating that I suppose that I'm illiterate. There's a difference, but you're either too arrogant or too stupid to see it.
Rearrange the sentence, moron.
I suppose [they are] all wrong and I'm illiterate.
"All wrong and I'm illiterate" is a compound object. You say yourself that a comma shouldn't separate a compound object. What changed your mind?
Note the difference:
(a) I suppose they are all wrong, and I'm illiterate.
(b) I suppose they are all wrong and I'm illiterate.
In (a) I'm stating that I'm illiterate. In (b) I'm stating that I suppose that I'm illiterate. There's a difference, but you're either too arrogant or too stupid to see it.
Comma, you stupid old cow.
http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/12/mail-bag-was-smoking-this-morning.html
>This fellow must be Ziggy’s best bud. Good. Ziggy needs a soul mate who can’t wrestle commas to the ground. Don’t think I shall give up my comma weapon fellows. It’s more effective than Buffalo Bill’s carbine, and you’re in the cross-hairs. lee <
A comma of direct address goes here while you're making fun of how we can't use commas, stupid. BANG!
>This fellow must be Ziggy’s best bud. Good. Ziggy needs a soul mate who can’t wrestle commas to the ground. Don’t think I shall give up my comma weapon fellows. It’s more effective than Buffalo Bill’s carbine, and you’re in the cross-hairs. lee <
A comma of direct address goes here while you're making fun of how we can't use commas, stupid. BANG!
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Ziggy's Post
Ziggy has his own blog:
http://ziggysabyss.blogspot.com/
Post whatever you want here, Ziggy.
Ziggy says ...
Lee, despite her promise to post anything from any reader due to her commitment to the First Amendment, refuses to post a comment of mine. What did you expect, Ziggy? She's a hypocrite. She refuses to post it because I correct her writing in this one:
Ziggy, you argue for the sake of keeping the attention on you. A mother of four and a granny of ten can tell you that little kids cut up all the time to get attention.
You need to start a blog of your own. You are monopolizing my blog. It’s not the nagging you do; [SPACE AFTER SEMICOLON] it’s the space you take up with no point. you [CAPITALIZE “YOU”] nag for the sake of keeping the attention on you.
A mother of four and a granny of ten can tell you that little kids cut up all the time to get attention. [SPACE AFTER PERIOD]You need to start a blog of your own. You are monopolize [REPLACE WITH MONOPOLIZING OR OMIT "ARE"] my blog with pointless patter. [ENTIRE PARAGRAPH IS REPETITION OF PREVIOUS TWO PARAGRAPHS]
Learn this bit of logic, dear boy: [INSERT “NEITHER”] You nor anyone will ever tell me whose grammar to correct. That is strictly the kid here's choice. lee [CAPITALIZE “LEE”]--
Logic? How is correcting one person's grammar and not another's logical?
And yesterday she posted:
Thank you and to all who make the fight against the board and administration's mistreatment of teachers, I wish a merry Christmas.
It's confusing. I think it should say:
To all who make the fight against the board and administration's mistreatment of the teachers, I thank you and wish you a merry Christmas.
The reason it's confusing is because there are two independent clauses that Lee doesn't separate with a comma.
"(I) thank you." and "To all ... Christmas."
Thus:
(I) thank you, and to all who make the fight against the board and administration's mistreatment of teachers, I wish a merry Christmas.
That second comma could be argued as well. Would Lee write
"I wish a merry Christmas, to all"?
No, of course not.
Keep posting, Ziggy. As Lee often writes, become a pest. Keep chipping away. This is America, and you have a First Amendment right.
http://ziggysabyss.blogspot.com/
Post whatever you want here, Ziggy.
Ziggy says ...
Lee, despite her promise to post anything from any reader due to her commitment to the First Amendment, refuses to post a comment of mine. What did you expect, Ziggy? She's a hypocrite. She refuses to post it because I correct her writing in this one:
Ziggy, you argue for the sake of keeping the attention on you. A mother of four and a granny of ten can tell you that little kids cut up all the time to get attention.
You need to start a blog of your own. You are monopolizing my blog. It’s not the nagging you do; [SPACE AFTER SEMICOLON] it’s the space you take up with no point. you [CAPITALIZE “YOU”] nag for the sake of keeping the attention on you.
A mother of four and a granny of ten can tell you that little kids cut up all the time to get attention. [SPACE AFTER PERIOD]You need to start a blog of your own. You are monopolize [REPLACE WITH MONOPOLIZING OR OMIT "ARE"] my blog with pointless patter. [ENTIRE PARAGRAPH IS REPETITION OF PREVIOUS TWO PARAGRAPHS]
Learn this bit of logic, dear boy: [INSERT “NEITHER”] You nor anyone will ever tell me whose grammar to correct. That is strictly the kid here's choice. lee [CAPITALIZE “LEE”]--
Logic? How is correcting one person's grammar and not another's logical?
And yesterday she posted:
Thank you and to all who make the fight against the board and administration's mistreatment of teachers, I wish a merry Christmas.
It's confusing. I think it should say:
To all who make the fight against the board and administration's mistreatment of the teachers, I thank you and wish you a merry Christmas.
The reason it's confusing is because there are two independent clauses that Lee doesn't separate with a comma.
"(I) thank you." and "To all ... Christmas."
Thus:
(I) thank you, and to all who make the fight against the board and administration's mistreatment of teachers, I wish a merry Christmas.
That second comma could be argued as well. Would Lee write
"I wish a merry Christmas, to all"?
No, of course not.
Keep posting, Ziggy. As Lee often writes, become a pest. Keep chipping away. This is America, and you have a First Amendment right.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Punctuation and quotes.
http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/12/alafia-parents-step-up-to-plate.html
>My bet is that Ms. Elia took the patronage privilege that the feckless board ceded her while its members intone with their fingers crossed behind their backs, “We are an equal-employment-opportunity employer, “ I envision that Elia hired Smith over lunch one day.<
This bint lectures posters on punctuating quotation marks; or is this one your run-of-the-mill comma splice?
>One parent emailed my blog to say that she was just like Ms. Elia.<
You mustn't like that parent then! Check your antecedents.
>(one inferred this referred chiefly to the Alafia blog since I didn’t see any comments about it on the other blogs). <
Parallel construction - ... since one didn't see ...
>If there is anything that Elia hates and also the board, it’s the hated blogs that just blab out the truth as they see it.<
Ewww!
>The special ed-supervisors who charged him with child abuse should have a Professional Standards case lodged against them since they threw him in a class of severely retarded youngsters and gave him no instruction. His field is learning disabled. Here is his explanation of his specialty. Lee<
What's an ed-supervisor, stupid?
>My bet is that Ms. Elia took the patronage privilege that the feckless board ceded her while its members intone with their fingers crossed behind their backs, “We are an equal-employment-opportunity employer, “ I envision that Elia hired Smith over lunch one day.<
This bint lectures posters on punctuating quotation marks; or is this one your run-of-the-mill comma splice?
>One parent emailed my blog to say that she was just like Ms. Elia.<
You mustn't like that parent then! Check your antecedents.
>(one inferred this referred chiefly to the Alafia blog since I didn’t see any comments about it on the other blogs). <
Parallel construction - ... since one didn't see ...
>If there is anything that Elia hates and also the board, it’s the hated blogs that just blab out the truth as they see it.<
Ewww!
>The special ed-supervisors who charged him with child abuse should have a Professional Standards case lodged against them since they threw him in a class of severely retarded youngsters and gave him no instruction. His field is learning disabled. Here is his explanation of his specialty. Lee<
What's an ed-supervisor, stupid?
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Nor.
http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/12/civilizing-of-baord-and-administration.html
All board members, Ms. Elia, and even Mr. Gonzalez chimed in with their salute to the wisdom of the program that they implied emerged from them alone and that a fellow named Bart Birdsall nor even Jesus, one of the world’s good guys who for sure hates gay bashing, never had a thing to do with begging them for years about the need for such a program.
Wrong.
All board members, Ms. Elia, and even Mr. Gonzalez chimed in with their salute to the wisdom of the program that they implied emerged from them alone and that a fellow named Bart Birdsall nor even Jesus, one of the world’s good guys who for sure hates gay bashing, never had a thing to do with begging them for years about the need for such a program.
Wrong.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Agreement and passive verbs
http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/12/mr-brooks-see-me-in-my-office-after.html
You need one of those tough public-school teachers of the sort that teach in Hillsborough County while enduring the abuse of a thuggish administration and lackadaisical school board. This pedagogical stalwart of literacy would teach you grammar, punctuation, and how to write pellucid prose.
The clause "that teach ..." modifies "sort". Sort is singular.
The meager pay presents no lure for intellectually gifted students. Yet what is astonishing is how many smart college graduates still choose to teach despite the salary penury. They love the job despite the meagre pay.
Make up your mind. UK or US? If someone adopts UK style and punctuates accordingly, you have a hissyfit. At least I'm consistent.
>I interviewed people in the president-elect’s inner circle and determined that reformers had nothing to worry about. Passive verb in a wordy sentence. “People in the president-elect’s inner circle assured me that reformers had nothing to worry about.”<
She's deluded, even with 28 years' experience in teaching English. Which is the passive verb in this sentence? When Vinegartits rewords sentences, she usually sucks out the original meaning. Perhaps this is why she is such a liar; she rewords her own thoughts so that the end result is total codswallop.
You need one of those tough public-school teachers of the sort that teach in Hillsborough County while enduring the abuse of a thuggish administration and lackadaisical school board. This pedagogical stalwart of literacy would teach you grammar, punctuation, and how to write pellucid prose.
The clause "that teach ..." modifies "sort". Sort is singular.
The meager pay presents no lure for intellectually gifted students. Yet what is astonishing is how many smart college graduates still choose to teach despite the salary penury. They love the job despite the meagre pay.
Make up your mind. UK or US? If someone adopts UK style and punctuates accordingly, you have a hissyfit. At least I'm consistent.
>I interviewed people in the president-elect’s inner circle and determined that reformers had nothing to worry about. Passive verb in a wordy sentence. “People in the president-elect’s inner circle assured me that reformers had nothing to worry about.”<
She's deluded, even with 28 years' experience in teaching English. Which is the passive verb in this sentence? When Vinegartits rewords sentences, she usually sucks out the original meaning. Perhaps this is why she is such a liar; she rewords her own thoughts so that the end result is total codswallop.
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