I just saw a Facebook page called "Learning How To Fucking Spell Properly":
1. When I first read it, I put the fourth word after the fifth word, which changed the meaning.
2. Then I wondered why such a page would be necessary anyway: I rarely see anyone misspell "properly."
3. Then it struck me as odd that someone with spelling rage would split an infinitive. Not that split infinitives are incorrect, but that most people with spelling-rage issues also have grammar-rage issues.
1. When I first read it, I put the fourth word after the fifth word, which changed the meaning.
2. Then I wondered why such a page would be necessary anyway: I rarely see anyone misspell "properly."
3. Then it struck me as odd that someone with spelling rage would split an infinitive. Not that split infinitives are incorrect, but that most people with spelling-rage issues also have grammar-rage issues.
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Also, anyone with grammar-rage might well prefer to avoid an over-used adjective. I'd go with "Learning how to jolly well spell properly."
I'm also reminded that Monty Python once produced a list of silly book titles, including "How to Spell" by The Quoon.
"Jolly well" would make it a British page. :-)
Andrew, thanks for this post, but I feel I must ask you please do not parcel up those sufferers of spelling-rage with sufferers of grammar-rage. They really are two very distinct illnesses, the treatments of which differ enormously. :-)
Do tell, Mrs. C, what the treatments are! For grammar rage, some historical linguistics helps, but few people want to hear that.
My grama is a good grammarian. Maybe you could ask yours? Or mine? Spelling-rage is notoriously hard to cure, some say that it's incurable. That may be why the "over-used adjective" was used. I guess the Quoon doesn't use it much...
andrew, this reminds me of the NTFM story, of course....
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