Saturday, January 10, 2009

Holy homophones, Batman! Twice!

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/01/two-years-observance-of-hillsborough.html

Seriously, this one beggars belief.

>In return for the loss of a qualified, hardworking, no-gossip-about-her principal, citizens got stuck with her priapic former husband, one whose writing reveals that he doesn’t know the difference between “your” and “your, ” and one La Connie Mileto, munchkin femme fatale when it comes to climbing the employment ladder with meager credentials.<

This a different e-mail from the other one. Vinegartits makes the same error - again!

Now, class, lets add this up. Hamilton made his original your/you're error once in an informal email. Lee Drury de Cesare (teacher with 28 years of experience, college professor and self-proclaimed grammar expert) makes her your/your error twice in formal emails to an education head.

Vinegartits, there's no contest. You're ("your", if you like!) at least twice as stupid as Hamilton will ever be.

(You would think that after writing about Faliero that often, Lee could spell her name accurately in an email address. Heavens to Betsy, it's a march to the swamps of e-illiteracy!)

Commissionersmith@fldoe.org ; Commissioner@fldoe.org ; Sandy.Cho@fldoe.org ; april.griffin@sdhc.k12.fl.us ; Will.Holcombe@fldoe.org ; Chancellor.Haithcock@fldoe.org ; Lucy.Hadi@fldoe.org ; tomgozales@sdhc.k121.fl.us ; Joyce.hildreth@dbs.fldoe.org ; Bill.Palmer@vr.fldoe.org ; Arm@fldoe.org ; Linda.Champion@fldoe.org ; oig@fldoe.org ; Debby.Kearney@fldoe.org ; Erin.geraghty@fldoe.org ; Carrie.Fraser@fldoe.org ; Mike.Kooi@fldoe.org ; Sam.Ferguson@fldoe.org ; linda.cobbe@sdhc.k12.fl.us ; doretha.edgecomb@sdhc.k12.fl.us ; candy.olson@sdhc.k12.fl.us ; jack.lamb@sdhc.k12.fl.us ; jennifer.falliero@sdhc.k12.fl ; carol.kurdell@sdhc.k12.fl.us ; susanvaldes@sdhc.k12.fl.us ; paultash@sptimes.com ; larsen@tampatribune.com ; letitiastein@sptimes.com ; mbrown@tampatribune ; patrickmanteiga@lagacetanewspaper.com ;gsiudut@lagacetanewspaper.com ; goader@es-kay.net ; earl.lennard@sdhc.k12.fl.us ; Jim.hamilton@sdhc.k12.fl.us ; tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com

Dear Secretary of Education Smith,

I apologise for this unsolicited communication. Regrettably, we live in an age where anyone can compile a list of emails and annoy people.

Lee Drury de Cesare is often in error. For example, in two separate emails to you she has consistently maintained that "your" and "your" are homophones. She will assure you that Dr Hamilton is incompetent because he has trouble with homophones.

I ask that you deem Lee Drury de Cesare incompetent for the same reason and that you hence assume that everything she writes is similarly flawed.

I'll post Lee's mind-boggling stupidity on my blog.
http://antigrammargrinch.blogspot.com/

Fond regards,
John D

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