Friday test results: I resemble that remark
This one's right on the money, except for the part about other people's grammar mistakes making me crazy, although I admit that I used to care a lot. Maybe you could say that other people's grammatical mistakes have made me insane; that might be more accurate. But nowadays I really don't much care about how others say what they say, to be honest, as long as their meaning is reasonably clear. I feel like it's a waste of time correcting people's grammar, unless of course they ask, in which case I correct them and then explain exactly why it's wrong and give them several better ways to express what they mean. It's fun to watch their eyes glaze over. I'll also correct grammar mistakes if someone is paying me to do edit their writing. Which happens, sometimes. I edit with a red Sharpie®, though, which some people have said makes me seem hostile and aggressive. Whiners.
Oh, and I'm not in the final stages of a PhD, nor in any stage of one. I do, however, read quite a lot for work. And for fun. Pretty much whenever I'm not doing something else.
| What Kind of Reader Are You? Your Result: Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm You're probably in the final stages of a Ph.D. or otherwise finding a way to make your living out of reading. You are one of the literati. Other people's grammatical mistakes make you insane. | |
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4 comments:
put me in the obsessive compulsive reader column, too. and given the master's thesis that's still hanging over my head, the guess that i'm a phd student isn't that far off ...
hell, miss magpie -- I'm surprised you didn't make the test explode.
Put me in the obsessive compulsive reader column too...and I am a phd student!
The great irony of that, of course is that I don't get to read any of the fun books anymore -- it feels like some kind of guilty pleasure when I read anything other than course and research-related material...even the way cool book about American porches mz magpie gave me.
Hi, alpha-bitch/alpha-beta/aleph-bet: I am a stickler for punctuation at his last stage of madness -- so put me in the OCD column, while I unzip my straitjacket...
In defining punctuation, some grammarians use the analogy of stitching: punctuation as the basting that holds the fabric of language in shape. But best of all, I think, is the simplest advice given by a a British columnist: that punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling
The consequences of mispunctuation have appealed to both great and little minds, and in the age of the fancy-that email a popular example is the comparison of two sentences:
-A woman, without her man, is nothing.
-A woman: without her, man is nothing
Which, I don't know, really makes you think, doesn't it?
Concluding, and to be my usual logorrheic self, here is a popular "Dear John" letter that works in much the same fundamentally pointless way:
Dear John,
I want a man who knows what love is all about. You are generous, kind, thoughtful. People who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me for other men. I yearn for you. I have no feelings whatsoever when we're apart. I can be forever happy - will you let me be yours?
Jill
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Dear John,
I want a man who knows what love is. All about you are generous, kind, thoughtful people, who are not like you. Admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me. For other men I yearn! For you I have no feelings whatsoever. When we're apart I can be forever happy. Will you let me be?
Yours,
Jill
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Good to have stumbled upon your blog.
Ciao
-K
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