I used to joke with my best friend that I was going to just start traveling with buckets of black and white paint so I could correct the missing and excessive punctuation on signs across the nation. The quotation mark issue is a particular peeve of mine.
That's brilliant. It's almost like Kibo, if Kibo were still doing that instead of spending all his time doing things on Usenet where I can't see them.
Anyway, this sort of thing is extremely comforting, as it makes me feel less like a freak and more like part of a growing army of people who KNOW WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT.
In my (not terribly) secret dreams, when I grow up I want to BE Allison Janney.
This matter of growth vs. increasingly vocal shrinkage is very sad indeed. Someday the world will be ruled by cheerfully grammatically oblivious masses, with small rebel factions of grammar nazis who paint over signs, print transcripts of chatroom conversations and burn them, and make voodoo dolls of people who say "different than".
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Date: 2007-08-29 06:54 pm (UTC)I used to joke with my best friend that I was going to just start traveling with buckets of black and white paint so I could correct the missing and excessive punctuation on signs across the nation. The quotation mark issue is a particular peeve of mine.
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Date: 2007-08-29 08:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-29 07:04 pm (UTC)That is a great blog. You might also like the Lowercase L blog (http://lowercasel.blogspot.com/).
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Date: 2007-08-29 07:11 pm (UTC)THANK you
Date: 2007-08-29 07:27 pm (UTC)Anyway, this sort of thing is extremely comforting, as it makes me feel less like a freak and more like part of a growing army of people who KNOW WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT.
Re: THANK you
Date: 2007-08-29 07:52 pm (UTC)Sadly, I fear that the army to which you refer is actually shrinking, and what you perceive as growth is merely increased vocalism.
Re: THANK you
Date: 2007-08-29 09:05 pm (UTC)This matter of growth vs. increasingly vocal shrinkage is very sad indeed. Someday the world will be ruled by cheerfully grammatically oblivious masses, with small rebel factions of grammar nazis who paint over signs, print transcripts of chatroom conversations and burn them, and make voodoo dolls of people who say "different than".
Claudia Jean Forever!
Date: 2007-08-29 09:09 pm (UTC)