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I think I may have a problem...

I'm getting a little manic/obsessive over bad grammar.

I just posted on a local elementary school's status update, correcting their grammar. Now, in my defense, they ARE a school and the error was a basic one (they wrote "there" instead of "their"). 

But I think that may have crossed a line. Or two...

Embarrassed 

"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky." -- Ranier Maria Rilke BabyFruit Ticker image Me:37 MH:38 TTC since Oct 2011 BFP/Beta#1: 13 6/20/12; Beta#2: 20 6/22/12; MC/Beta#3: 9 6/27/12 BFP#2/Beta#1: 9/21/12 S/PAIFW

Re: I think I may have a problem...

  • Maybe you can write to the town of Sanford and tell them that Santa Claus doesn't have an "e" in it (Clause). I wanted to cry when I saw it spelled wrong more than once on their website in the "Holly Daze" information.

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  • I got a marketing letter from a local oil company a few weeks ago and it was full of spelling and grammar errors. I was embarrassed for them while I read it! Plus the design was awful. As a marketing person I was thinking of calling them and offering them some help. LOL
  • I don't know what it is about bad grammar, but it irks me and gets under my skin so that it feels like it's crawling.

    And it's not just in English, either-- there's a restaurant who has "ouvrier" all over their storefront. They *think* it means "open" in French, but it actually means "laborer." Drives me absolutely bananas.

     

    "Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky." -- Ranier Maria Rilke BabyFruit Ticker image Me:37 MH:38 TTC since Oct 2011 BFP/Beta#1: 13 6/20/12; Beta#2: 20 6/22/12; MC/Beta#3: 9 6/27/12 BFP#2/Beta#1: 9/21/12 S/PAIFW
  • The sign in front of the Saco FD reads, " Donate all of your non-Parishables." I haven't figured out a way I can do that yet. LOL
  • imagemaeghan21:
    The sign in front of the Saco FD reads, " Donate all of your non-Parishables." I haven't figured out a way I can do that yet. LOL

     I guess you'd have to figure out which Parish and then whether they claim items from the New Testament or the Old Testament? 

    "Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky." -- Ranier Maria Rilke BabyFruit Ticker image Me:37 MH:38 TTC since Oct 2011 BFP/Beta#1: 13 6/20/12; Beta#2: 20 6/22/12; MC/Beta#3: 9 6/27/12 BFP#2/Beta#1: 9/21/12 S/PAIFW
  • Ugh, I find myself constantly judging this kind of thing.  You're definitely not alone.
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