Parenthesis trouble - and more.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/03/people-don.html

>The 56-foot yacht in Jupiter, Fla., used by the two judges.<

Flabby passive voice.

About twenty years ago, three Hillsborough County commissioners were caught taking bribes. I think Shouldn't you know before you start slandering them?these were Joe Kotvos, Fred Anderson, and Jerry Bowmer.

Dr. Lennard led the campaign with Dr. James Hamilton and Mr. Davis--or maybe it was Black; I get them mixed up-- Again, check your facts before you start.to give Mr. Erwin the runaround when Mr. Erwin tried for two years to get them to do something about the crimes he had discovered: kickbacks, rigged bids, shoddy construction of schools, and plain stealing of such things as tractors and even toilet paper by the grounds supervisor. Flabby passive voice.

The board looked the other way or some members participated, and the others looked the other way. Proper punctuation would help this sentence.

In fact Shudder., they are rapidly disappearing.

The readers slide to the semi literate of the population while savvy citizens switch to online news and blogs.

If an imperilled newspaper management were smart--and it isn't--look at that dope who owns the NYT, Dauphin Sulzberger, it would switch to Web sites with the local news its emphasis. Online news does not cover local but national news.
The removal of the bit in parenthesis renders the sentence nonsensical (and a run-on sentence).

I can then see a transition of readers to the smart local paper's blog for local news; then they would switch to blogs for differnt takes on local stories and the national and international news Webs for that level of news.

I heard Andrew Barnes at an ACLU hoedown fifteen years ago impugning the Internet's effect on news compared to With, with, with! the purity of local newspapers immaculate productions.

So much for Andy. Mr. Tash was Mr. Barnes's Sancho Panza, so he now manages with the same dim principles even though his parents were teachers and he graduated summa cum laude from some Iowa school--or maybe it was Ohio-- Check your facts for excelling in hayseed scholarship that did not include learning to punctuate or to assess a business situation and make the right moves to stay on the sunny side of economics.

One wants the institution that cares for the intellectual development of our children to be pure..

Such a belief contaminates the romance of schools being What? No possessive before gerund? the pristine and potent center of democracy's training the young to practice ideal democreacy when they are grown.

The board said noting about this rape of the tax payers and apparently did nothing to confirm that Dr. Hamilton's job was a faux position.

So if the board condones featherbedding jobs paid for by taxpayers Flabby passive voice. , maybe it is possible that one accepted a financial bailout from the administration with tax dollars.

I looked at the NYT front page to see what President Obama was going to do with the auto industry, Comma splits compound predicate and ran across the following shocker of public officials' crime.

Like the crime in the school sytem, people around these two judges knew about the crime Comma needed here but like the workers and teachers in the schools didn't say anything for fear of losing their jobs.

Vinegartits reads my blog to learn.

Two out of three ain't bad. A few posts ago here

http://antigrammargrinch.blogspot.com/2009/03/homophone-problems-equals-illiterate.html

I mentioned Vinegartits's homophone difficulties with "to" and "too" (proving that she is illiterate) and had a laugh at her error in a sentence that boasted how the ability to use language is so wonderful and how she is so great at it.

Vinegartits has obviously checked my blog and gone back to correct her errors. http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/03/peashooters-are-out-and-about.html

Now I know at least one reason why my hit counter keeps ticking over. You're welcome, Miss I've-been-teaching-for-28-years-and-I'm-so-wonderful. Luckily, I took a screen shot of your slop so that even if you corrected it we could all still see how illiterate you are.

PS Did you notice how I made my scan big enough for my reader to read? This is called "giving a shit". I know you don't give a shit about any of your readers because you give them a curt "Blow it up yourself". Your readers probably know deep down that you don't give a shit about them. The educators that you deride when you allege that they have no technological savvy are rolling in the aisles at your hypocrisy, too.

Check ... one, two ...

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/03/peashooters-are-out-and-about.html

I'll move away from Vinegartits's grammar briefly. I can't help notice these comments.


From Vinegartits (Sentence fragment intended):

>I can't figure out how to blow this scan up. You will have do that job. <

>Please send me the name of the AV person who is in charge when the board is in session.<

>The education channel has called me to come in and let it prove that they its personnel did not cut out my appearances.<

From a poster (Anonymous, natch.):

>When you spoke at meeting, no one in audience heard you. Sounds like Education Channel caved in. <

This whole let's-blame-everyone-because-Lee-couldn't-be-heard debacle is laughable. Ziggy outlines at his Abyss blog that Lee as a public speaker is pathetic.

I wager that Lee can't use a microphone or project her voice properly. Microphones aren't magic; many people think that if they are in the same room as this magic ice cream cone, then all is fine. I've seen people muttering into microphones, followed by efforts from the "AV" personnel to turn up the volume. Mostly, the idiots on the mics speak more quietly when they hear their levels increase.

Surely a teacher with experience of 28 years could project her voice clearly enough.

It wouldn't matter when the AV person tells Lee that she can't use a microphone for peanuts; she's already got her back up. The AV person could start talking about gain structure, feedback, cardoid patterns, condenser mics, omnidirectional/unidirectional microphones, or a host of other topics and it still wouldn't matter, because this vindictive bitch has already worked out that it couldn't have been her fault.

My thought for the day: If you've got something important for people to read, make it readable. If you've got something important for people to hear, make it audible.

We've seen how apathetic Vinegartits is towards increasing the size of some scanned text for people to read. Surely she could be similarly apathetic towards mastering the art of how to use a microphone for people to hear. Gee, she's too apathetic to master the homophones "to" and "too"!

Homophone problems equals illiterate.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/03/peashooters-are-out-and-about.html
>The education channel has called me to come in and let it prove that they its personnel did not cut out my appearances. <

>We must never believe a public official is too high or to mighty for us to call on for help where government is concerned.<

The homophones "to", "two" and "too" are often confused. Like those who confuse "your" and "you're", people who get this one wrong are illiterate bozos.

>Language is the most powerful weapon in the world, and I have e a handle on it.<

You sometimes have a handle on it, Vinegartits. Mostly, you've got only your hand on it.

Vinegartits hits The Wall

From The Wall blog:

http://call-in-6.blogspot.com/2007/03/random-thoughts-board-meeting-mar13.html

>In fact, every administrator making over $100,000 should kick in at least $40,000 of her/his bloated paychecks to the budget crisis.

...

In fact, where is the CTA ever when teachers need it to stand up to the administration? <

Do you know the facts? State them. Strunk &White insists you do.


>Her [Elia] salary represents an insult to teachers and students since she can't punctuate and doesn't show any sign of learning this literacy requirement for anyone's working in education.<

Is that so? How's this, then?
>Ms. Elia got over $10,000 raise at the same time the teachers got peanuts Separate two independent clauses with a comma and the bus drivers get third-world salaries and drive broken-down buses with not enough mechanics to fix them.<

>Massachussetts has a state law that mandates all administrators take the same literacy tests as do teachers. That requirement would clean out at least half of the current ROSSAC administration illiterati.<

And were it enforced, quite a few teachers too, I'd imagine. Thomas What's-an-apostrophe Vaughan would be the first.



>Even as catch-up, the "raise" was meager compared to bloated administration salaries.<

Facts.
1. This should be "compared with".
2. Strunk & White says that it should be "compared with".
3. I told Vinegartits here http://grammargrinch.blogspot.com/2007/06/tampa-tribune-editorial-editor-goudreau.html that it should be "compared with".
4. Vinegartits agreed with me here http://grammargrinch.blogspot.com/2007/06/tampa-tribune-editorial-editor-goudreau.html that it should be "compared with".
5. Vinegartits is too stupid to get it right. She is illiterate.

A new rant with a felony by the second sentence

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/03/cliff-notes-on-10th-board-meeting-we.html

Yes, fans of the Vinegartits genre, you can always pop into her blog and find grammar errors easily. I don't know how long it will take to find and post them all - stay tuned.

>I attended the board meeting on the 10th. Public TV cut out my part in citizens' forum at this meeting as it had done the previous meeting, At both I protested the unfairness of the Steve Kemp case.< My goodness!

>Ms. Elia hired a tutor for $340 a day to guide Ms. Smith in learning to treat other people as human beings. Isn't that a required [Adjectival, but still flabby passive voice.] job skill coming into a principal job?<

Aren't teachers allowed professional development? Besides, many teachers who post to your blogs don't have the required grammar and punctuation skills for a teacher job. When will you pull them up?

>This confirms teachers' maxim that at ROSSAC if youj mess up, you move up0.<
Sloppy.

>Dr. Lennard, you will recall if you have reviewed the Erwin court papers, was the principal torturer who tried to kick out a man from the school system with no pension [Laughably misplaced to modify "school system"] because he had discovered the nest of crime going on in ROSSAC and insisted on making it public.<

>One comes away from reading those boxes of Erwin documents with the conviction that protection of the crime going on then in which bid-rigging, theft of school property, slipshod building that got top dollar, and just plain stealing of money were ongoing and protected [Flabby passive voice] by the administration and board.<
Vinegartits's wordy sentences get her in trouble. Sometimes she forgets what the subject of a clause is because of all the crap in between it and its verb. Why else would she write that the protection was protected? Sheesh!

>Ms. Falliero, you will remember [Comma here] was the board member who wanted the board to get yet another raise that exceeded that of beginning teachers' pay even more than the roughly $10,000 that the board sloths presently exceed beginning teachers' salaries.<

>Ms. Edgecombe's customary chirping chatter held a seed of interesting data. If I rescued the data from the chirping, she and Mr. Valdez had taught together when she was a single mother.<

False logic. So if you hadn't rescued the data, they would not have taught together? This is a common error.

>And if teachers have a special place on the agenda, why did the little arts guy wearing a splotchy apron speak before me in the citizen's forum instead of the special teachers' forum that Ms. Olson claims exists> [Punctuate questions with question marks.] <

One citizen and many teachers? Arguments can be made for either singular or plural, but the argument for plural is stronger. We know that apostrophes aren't Vinegertits's forte, but she should pick one style and stick to it. Perhaps she can't remember six words back these days.

>Ms. Elia ignored the request. I agree that middle school and grammar school teachers should get proportional representation. My six grammar-school teachers had more impact on my psyche than all the other teachers I have had put together.<

This inconsistent style is poor.

>I suspect there is academic snobbery unfolding in middle- and grammar-school teachers absence from the committees.<

Forget possessives before gerunds; La Vinegartits can't manage possessives before nouns.

>Ms. Elia's own academic record is too shoddy to warrant such shopworn prejudice against the children's grammar- school and middle-school teachers.<

Is this another floating hyphen or lack of attention to detail?

>He doesn't know Roberts Rules from a hole in the ground.<

Vinegartits doesn't know the title or how to use an apostrophe. She started to punctuate this correctly after I pulled her up on it. It appears she is marching back to the swamps of illiteracy.

>I once heard him say that teachers' applauding their colleagues violated Roberts Rules when they attended en masse to protest Ms. Elia's downloading an extra class on them without consultation or warning. <

See what I mean? Once is a typo. Twice is ignorance.

>I append Thomas's last comment to this blog.<

Well, this should be good! I'll analyse it later.

By the way, I taught Lee how to apostrophise words ending with "s". Check here: https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10202103&postID=7168423543492832625

Vinegartits ... back and slack.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/03/missing-in-action-but-still-alive.html

>The palentology community tried to disown the Neaderthals as precedent to us; it was nothing but discrimination because they were ugly.<


>I hope to be able to save his job by constantly nagging the thugs who are holding him on suspension on a cooked-up case of child abust that the sheriff threw out.<

>Never underestimate the effectiveness of being a pain in the ass. You don't have to be rational. You just have to be unrelenting. It doesn't matter if you don't make sense. Just keep talking.<
It doesn't matter if you don't make sense? Now you tell us your modus operandi!

>I was proud of Thomas for standing down that administrator who wants to "get rid" of him. That the administrators as a group think they have the right and the power to get rid of teachers for personal snits tells how indecent the ethics are of the school board and administration.<

>I have a new printer and computer Comma goes here to separate two independent clauses. but the computer will be tied up with the Geek Squad at Best Buy for a couple of days for data transfer.<

homas, you did great in fighting your fight against that pompous administrator, but you should have given that administrator's name.