begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 04:24:16PM -0700: > Jason Kraus wrote: > >We are all using bad grammar, we should all be using old English and talk > >like the characters in the Old King James version of the Bible! After all, > >American English is just the bastardization of old English. Point being, > >grammar and spelling is relative to the audience, hence why I'm not a > >grammar Nazi (that and I am horrible at grammar, I would be like a Jewish > >Nazi or something).
Hm... I missed this bit. /me investigates Ah. Top-poster. Equates with "having nothing worthwhile to say." As is indeed the case. > There's horrible grammar, and then there's just plain illiterate. > > Lie vs. lay. Split infinitives. Subject-verb agreement. That's grammar. > > "Lead" vs. "led" is illiteracy (it's actually reliance on spellchecking > rather than proofreading). It's a tense mistake. Calling it illiteracy is a bit much. > I don't flame off about grammar often anymore, but the "lead" when you > meant "led" drives me up a tree. > > Why? > > Because it breaks my reading speed and begins to corrupt my *correct* > wiring about the English language. Yup. > Both "lead" (pronounced leed) and "led" are verbs. This means that I > may have to reread the sentence once or twice to figure out whether the > grammar error is number, agreement, tense, or outright illiteracy in > order to decode the sentence. I even once hit an ambiguous sentence > because of this. Very irritating. Introducing ambiguity is bad. > All this is simply because everybody is starting to propagate an error > because led vs. lead doesn't get caught by spell checkers. I didn't use a spellchecker. I made that error all on my own, thankyouverymuch. > If I hit a web page that makes this mistake nowadays, I close the page > unread. Sometimes I will look for a contact email address or feedback form. -- Grammar flames are vitally important to literacy. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
