DR Grammar Nazis rejoice!

Friday, April 17, 2009

The Elements of Style, the definitive writing guide by E.B. White and William Strunk Jr., turns 50 on Thursday. To mark the anniversary, its publisher has released an elegantly bound, gold-embossed hardcover edition containing notes about the book's history.

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Ending a sentence with a preposition is one thing, up with which, I will not put.

--churchill----

Posted by Lipzoidial at 2009-04-17 11:46 AM | Reply | Flag:

Me like do English good be.

Posted by LetUsPrey at 2009-04-17 11:53 AM | Reply | Flag:

This is a true grammatically correct sentence.

"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo."

Posted by Lipzoidial at 2009-04-17 12:05 PM | Reply | Flag:

And if you don't believe Lip, there's always Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org

Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2009-04-17 12:06 PM | Reply | Flag:

Boy just what we need. Grammar class at the Drudge Retort. Who gets to grade the papers?? Better not be Me or else we are all in a world of hurt.

Larry

Posted by LarryMohr at 2009-04-17 12:21 PM | Reply | Flag:

dID yoU knoW I werE a TEAcheR?

bLT.

Posted by jerrytarkanian at 2009-04-17 12:23 PM | Reply | Flag:

Mabe FLOP EARS will sned me an copee so ASSHOLE SANOBAMA an DOC DICKHEAD wil leeve me aloan.

-Oozie

Posted by SanAntonioRogue at 2009-04-17 12:26 PM | Reply | Flag:

Hey, leeve me aloan.
~DOC DICKHEAD

Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2009-04-17 12:33 PM | Reply | Flag:

Than stop posting hear on the CLOWN REPORT.

-Oozie

Posted by SanAntonioRogue at 2009-04-17 12:35 PM | Reply | Flag:

Mispelled wordz R a signe of a kreative minde.

Posted by kanrei at 2009-04-17 12:40 PM | Reply | Flag:

absotively, kanrei! and a wasted mind is...well...a mind wasted.

Posted by nanc at 2009-04-17 12:53 PM | Reply | Flag:

I used that on my creative writing teacher in college all the time. I loaded my papers with tons of misspelled words and then, when she returned my paper all marked up, I said "But I thought this was creative writing, so I just spelled creatively too." She gave me half credit for the creativity of my excuse.

Posted by kanrei at 2009-04-17 12:54 PM | Reply | Flag:

I had a friend in grad school who was a grammar Nazi. His favorite (not) was ending a sentence with a preposition. One day I asked him: "Hey Bob, where is the copier toner at?" to which he icily replied: "It's behind the AT."

There was a short pause.

I asked: "OK, where's the toner at, ASSHOLE?"

He never corrected me again.
True story.

Posted by SamBarber at 2009-04-17 08:14 PM | Reply | Flag: