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?

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