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.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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. 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 teaachers, 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.