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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----

Me like do English good be.


This is a true grammatically correct sentence.

"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo."

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

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

dID yoU knoW I werE a TEAcheR?


bLT.

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

-Oozie

Hey, leeve me aloan.
~DOC DICKHEAD

Than stop posting hear on the CLOWN REPORT.

-Oozie

Mispelled wordz R a signe of a kreative minde.

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

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.

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.

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