Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Exactly how stupid are you, Lee?

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/05/here-we-go-again-wearing-them-down.html


>I would like a copy of those reasons for rejecting the emails of Lee Drury De Cesare.<

Vinegartits wonders why her emails get marked as spam. Read the stats.

X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=17.902 required=5 tests=[AWL=-2.240, BAYES_50=0.001, CUSTOM_FS_COMBO=5, CUSTOM_FS_GSPOT=5, CUSTOM_FS_MEMBER=1, CUSTOM_GIRLS=0.01, CUSTOM_IRS_SARASOTA=4, CUSTOM_MEET_COMBO=5, CUSTOM_SEX=3.8, CUSTOM_STOCKS23=0.01, CUSTOM_STOCKS_COMP=0.01, CUSTOM_STOCKS_MARKET=0.01, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, SARASOTA=-2, SARASOTA_COUNTY=-2, SARASOTA_COUNTY_SB=-1.7, SARE_GIF_ATTACH=2]X-Spam-Score: 17.902X-Spam-Level: *****************X-Spam-Flag: YES

She's got a sexual reference attached to her blog name and wonders why the spam filter blocks her. Dopey old bitch.

Commas are another issue.

>Should you deny my request, or any part of the request, please state in writing the basis for the denial, including the exact statutory citation authorizing the denial, as required by s. 119.07(1)(d), F.S. <

This comma separates a compound object, Vinegartits. But you only know that when you pick on others.

>I will contact your Public Affairs office within 48 to discuss when I may expect fulfillment of my request and payment of any statutorily prescribed fees.<

Poor proofreading in a formal communication.

Monday, May 25, 2009

Ho hum - another sign of illiteracy from the queen of crap.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/05/5242009-dear-dr.html

>Dear Dr. Smith: As president of the Florida Association of School Superintendents, I am sure you take seriously the goals of your organization, especially the two that begin the goals list.<

This a common error among the illiterati. Vinegartits gets her knickers in a twist when "only" is misplaced, but examples like this are funnier. We now know that Vinegartits herself is the president of the Florida Association of School Superintendents unless she puts the adjectival phrase next to the word it is meant to modify.

Edit:
Dear Dr. Smith: I am sure you as president of the Florida Association of School Superintendents take seriously the goals of your organization, especially the two that begin the goals list.

And this was in a formal communication to an important education person. What a dimwit!

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Synonyms

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/05/faxes-faxes-faxes.html

Firstly, "vagina", "pudendum" and "perineum" are not synonyms.

>I am not a ninny voter, General Mc Cullum; I am a serious citizens who expects diligent service from our elected officials. <

This is one of the proofreading errors Vinegartits includes in this formal communication.


>That's not the mark of democracy but of dictatorship.<

Parallel construction dictates this edit:

That's the mark not of democracy but of dictatorship.

Check Strunk & White if you doubt me.

Monday, May 18, 2009

Sexist language and hokey verbs

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/05/beyond-blue-door-of-reality.html

>It's like when the Bush spokesman told the press it didn't understand that the Bush White House lived in its own reality.<

Give yourself a lecture on your years spent fighting for women's rights.

>The administration, board, and Steve Heggarty, head of Community Affairs, says [say - plural verb for plural subject] that ROSSAC won't "cooperate with your story" of the girl's exposed vagina in the yearbook. <

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Dr Hamilton doesn't know punctuation ...

... and neither does Vinegartits.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/05/i-am-moving-in-slowly-on-dr-beau.html

>This "gentleman" has not mastered grammar and punctuation (doesn't know the difference between "your" and "you're) yet has made his money in education and now tries by hook or crook to double-dip his pension and a lobbyist take from taxpayers when he is still marginally literate and still not up to the mark ethically to represent children in the schools, especially my grandchildren, to the legislature.<

If she could punctuate correctly while she is cutting others down for their sloppy work, she might get somewhere. Close those quotation marks, airhead.

>I wrote the president of UF, Dr. Machen--and his wife, too, cautioning about letting slack thesis committees turn loose on the world UF PhDs who probably bought and paid for their theses. <
Interesting parenthesis!

>And these cultural barbarians can wear only a limited number of vulgar gold jewelry with giant zirconias and go to Hawaii for pricey vacations with non-stop room service only so many times before even they get bored. <

"Jewelry" isn't a count noun.

Dr. Hamilton has since gone back to his wife, poor woman to be fool enough to let him in the door, but now thanks to the Sarasota School board and other boards that throw around taxpayer money in the good-ol'-boy-and-girl-rape-the-tax-kitty system that seems to predominate in school boards. [comma,] Dr. Hamilton bodes to pull down maybe a half million dollars a year from these lax school boards in the lobbying-consulting racket he has devised.

Saturday, May 16, 2009

This cow wants me to cut her down!

http://es-kay.net/?p=1101&cpage=1#comment-2849"

>Juries don’t like crooked administrators and they see through their distorted patois immediately.<

>I could make a case for a comma’s not being necessary between two short independent clauses.<

Let's look at how short these clauses are.

Juries don't like crooked administrators - 5 words (one a contraction)
... they see through their distorted patios immediately. 7 words


http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/05/comment-on-board-member-griffins.html
>I would do the same for you and [COMMA FOR COMPOUND SENTENCE] I hope you can respect that.

Please call or email me and [COMMA FOR COMPOUND SENTENCE] we will talk about your experiences and suggestions.<

I would do the same for you (7 words) and I hope you can respect that (6 words).

Please call or email me (5 words) and we will talk about your experiences and suggestions (8 words)

Is seven words a short independent clause? Only when Vinegartits writes one. What a hypocrite! She also carves up Griffin for her commas - I bet Griffin used that punctuation so that Thomas Vaughan wouldn't feel outclassed. You reckon someone that illiterate shouldn't be one the board? They shouldn't be teaching either.

Someone's got to let Thomas know he's illiterate.

Ms Griffin [comma of direct address]

If you would be willing to explain why this apparently skilled teacher [Steve Kemp] is being kept busy as a paper pusher comma I would love to hear about it. Its [apostrophe for it is] not just Steve. Ms Griffin [comma of direct address] this could happen to any one of us. It happened to me. Ms. Kipley herself told me how the numbers of abuse complaints against teachers has [subject - verb disagreement] tripled in the years she has been in charge of professional standards[caps].

If I recall correctly, I posited that it might be helpful to give guidance to teachers on how to avoid these problems. It seems to me as long as administration is willing to let teachers twist in the wind and show them little support (not good politically [comma] I guess) comma this "problem" will only get worse. If these abuse complaints have tripled as she said comma we have a problem that NEEDS [childish Romper Room capitals] to be addressed NOW [childish Romper Room capitals] .

Any suggestion that it is in the interest of teachers to curtail their participation in discussing these issues in blogs is a self hyphen serving attempt to protect the status quo which, in my opinion, is tantamount to sacrificing teachers for political expediency.

Those are the matters I want to speak to you about. Are you willing to talk to me? I believe we can find a way not to violate Mr. Kemps apostrophe right to due process and your obligation to remain unbiased. What do you think?

Had I a choice, I would prefer that Griffin teach my child over Vaughan.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Everybody - still singular; and a misquote

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/05/aw-furthermore.html

>The awful thing about somebody's messing up with the administration is that everybody--including other teachers and the union--shun the person as if she has the plague. <

She still can't work it out. The parenthetic bit should have helped. Everybody shuns. Sheesh!


>"The quality of mercy is not strained; it dropeth from heaven like the gentle rain," says Shakespeare.<

No, he didn't. And if he had, he would have spelled "droppeth" correctly.


>I append documents that I sent out today about the mistreatment of a third-grade teacher by one of Bradenton's principals and the board attorney.<

Flabby passive voice.


>I implore that you three see that Ms. Cropsey gets mercy from some source: you if it comes to that.<
The subjunctive mood is obviously dead as far as you're concerend. Lay off everyone else now, Vinegartits.

Monday, May 11, 2009

Make your case here, Vinegartits.

http://es-kay.net/?p=1101&cpage=1#comment-2849

">Juries don’t like crooked administrators and they see through their distorted patois immediately.<
She means slack things like failing to separate two independent clauses with a comma, as in this example from her post. "


I challenge you to make your case, Vinegartits. You aren't used to being called on these things, are you?

Everybody - singular!

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/05/keeping-on-task.html

>When the administration targets a teacher like it has targeted Ms. Cropsey, everybody including other teachers who should know better make the person a pariah.<

Everybody makes the person a pariah. This is a common mistake because of all those nasty words in between.

Spellcheckers

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/05/long-distance-complaining-about.html

>I am glad I did not give a lecture on English because the spell checker betrayed me and spelled "know" as "no." Spell checkers won't catch homophones. I hope to remember that fact some day. lee <

Let's not beat about the bush. The spell checker did not spell the word incorrectly. You did, Vinegartits. Your record of homophone trouble is starting to make Hamilton's look insignificant.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Wordiness

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/05/as-hamlet-said-words-words-words.html

>If so, you should deal with the lies cooked up by the Hillsborough County Schools' administration in claiming teachers violate professional standards in order to scare them into acquiescence with administrative thuggery and to put the word out that anybody who lets out a peep of criticism of the administration or board will be the target of a false charge.<

Check Strunk & White for advice on wordiness.

Wrong commas = illiteracy

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28089922&postID=8229815643007280450

>Dear Vox Populi: I got a thing-a-ma-diggy that my grandson, the computer engineering student; was going come see me and attach to my computer so that it acted like a second hard drive.<

Wrong.

I upgraded to a snazzier computer, but I still don't have it hooked up to the stand=by hard drive.

This is new. And it's wrong.

Monday, May 4, 2009

Passive vs active - the verb "to goader"

http://es-kay.net/?p=1045&cpage=1#comment-2831


On Goader's blog, Vinegartits makes this comment.

>My computer has been down for a week, so the last thing I read about Goader’s crucifixion by Ms. Elia et al was a comment on “The Wall” in which somebody said he or she didn’t want the administration to be [sic] “goader” him or her.

The person who leaves behind his history is the one who can act so as to become a verb. This is Goader’s unique achievement: he has ascended to the status of transitive-active verb: the strongest in the verb family.<

Here are the quotes on The Wall. http://call-in-6.blogspot.com/2009/04/should-i-stay-or-should-i-go.html

Believe me: No one needs to get "goadered".

Thomas Vaughan said...
....Goader chose to let them intimidate him into silence. You can only be "Goadered" if you assuage them.


Vinegartits, a good test for passive voice is to see if you can slip a "by" in there.

No one needs to get "goadered" [by administration].
You can only be "Goadered" [by them] if you assuage them.

The verb "to goader" was used only passively, I'm afraid.

Thomas Vaughan, you really do have a way with people, don't you? As Goader wrote, keep repeating your rot and it might come true (even if it is only in your mind). And be honest; Lee has vinegartitted you, hasn't she?

vaughan88@verizon.net Are you providing info now?

Sunday, May 3, 2009

This explains a lot. Go on - find my info. Let me know when you post it.

From Goader's blog:

http://es-kay.net/?p=1045&cpage=1#comment-2830

This speaks volumes. If you can't use a comma, you're illiterate. If you haven't read Machiavelli, you're not educated. Thomas taunts me with the "if the words aren't too big for you" line, and Lee still insists I'm in the lower quartile.

Readers, it's all those two have got! Name-calling.

Thomas Vaughan makes no secret of his hypocrisy when we writes "Yes, do as I say, not as I do." Good on you for not trying to hide it, but you're an asshole for practising it.

You can sense his excitement when he says he is about to get all my info. You go for it, Thomas. I'll be keen to see what you do with it. I've already told you some of what you need to know about me - that is, that I started this blog because I couldn't stand Vinegartits's hypocrisy - and you STILL can't work it out.


I can't wait to see all my info! If it's as wildly inaccurate as all the other crap you write, it might be good for a laugh. I challenge you to find it, Thomas. You've got it stuck in your head that only people who have read Machiavelli are educated; let's see your research skills, if you're so clever!



Thomas Vaughan on April 23rd, 2009 8:49 am
Did I hurt your feelings antigrammargrinch?
Yes, I am a master of capitulation, read Machiavelli and no, I refuse to zip it.
Oh wait, you may not be familiar with him. Machiavelli was a philosopher who wrote “The Prince”. Read it and become educated. You will find that capitulation is often an appropriate strategy.



Antigrammargrinch on May 3rd, 2009 7:55 am
Quotes will work better, obviously.
“Did I hurt your feelings antigrammargrinch?”
No, you make me laugh.
“Yes, I am a master of capitulation, read Machiavelli and no, I refuse to zip it.”
Fine. Don’t zip it. Expect fallout.
“Oh wait, you may not be familiar with him. Machiavelli was a philosopher who wrote “The Prince”. Read it and become educated.”
I may not be familiar with him … but then again I may be! How would you know? You make too many assumptions, don’t you Thomas? “Become educated” says he who can’t punctuate or distinguish between “you’re” and “your”. You’re a funny guy!
“You will find that capitulation is often an appropriate strategy.”
Not often enough. You obviously feel it’s fine for you to chicken out, but you admonish others who yield. It’s “do as I say, not as I do” with you, isn’t it?


Thomas Vaughan on May 3rd, 2009 12:11 pm
Yes, do as I say, not as I do.
antigrammargrinch pls reed Machiavelli. Your goin to luv it if de words aint to big for u .
As long as you do what i says….u goin to be fine.
Ok Steve I promise to end my comments on this thread…antigrammargrinch is so much fun to play with.


Goader on May 3rd, 2009 1:15 pm
The comment sections never close.

Thomas Vaughan on May 3rd, 2009 5:19 pm
OK…I’ll just refrain from taking antigrammargrinch bait. It really doesn’t have anything to add to the discussion. Its only purpose is to insult a woman who stood up for YOU when you were down.



lee drury de cesare on May 3rd, 2009 7:47 pm

I see that little imp AntiGrammargrinch is nipping in and out of Goader’s blog with his usual smart-ass, infelicitously couched comments. Just ignore the lower-quartile rascal is my advice. He will go away if you ignore him. He sends these missives from Tallahassee, I infer. I keep seeing a state university Internet service provideron my blog’s entries. And pray leave off urging him to read Machiavelli. The boy has not finished the first-grade classic “Down the River Road” yet. He will die without having read “The Prince” or even “The Adventures of Dipsey Doodle.”


Thomas Vaughan on May 3rd, 2009 8:38 pm
OMG
The Antigrammargrinch has been outed. I know a way we can get all we need to know about him. Want me to get the info?