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Fingernails on a chalkboard (remember those?) irritate some people. Misuse of apostrophes is what drives me up a wall.... especially when the misuse occurs on signs, in academia, and in the newspaper.
Of course, misspellings and grammatical errors in our small-town News-Fishwrap are so commonplace that reading it has become a bi-weekly cognitive-behavioral therapy for my malapostrophobia.
Speaking of therapy for that.... one of my insights is that it may be rooted in family: I have a brother and a nephew who have PhDs, and a brother-in-law and sister-in-law who have JDs. Apparently command of the intricacies of the language is not considered to be essential in the education of a doctoral candidate.
Late-breaking news: My brother does
NOT have a PhD. He has an EdD (Doctor of Education). I'll leave the punchline for you to figure out on your own.
Labels: apostrophe, fingernails on a chalkboard, Grammar, malapostrophobia, spelling
gerund [
jer-rund ;
jair-und ] (n.)
- A noun formed from a verb, ending in -ing, denoting an action or state, for example running.
- A nounificated verb, ending in -ing, denoting an action or state, for example running.
- A noun formed from a verb, ending in -ing, [ constantly truncated by a certain barely-literate candidate for vice-president of the USA ], for example runnin'.
Maybe it's just me, but I prefer a leader who is smarter than I.
Really - who would make a better international leader:
- a professor of Constitutional Law at a top-tier university
or - a high-school-bitch turned runner-up-would-be-beauty-queen cum1 politician-who-is-more-embarrassingly-out-of-her-league than I would be if I tried out for the Super Bowl Champion team. The same Barbie whose entire political savvy is BSing her way through interviews and spouting talking points that are irrelevant in any context - especially whatever context is current.
1 No, that's not what it means; get your head out of the gutter and use a dictionary to look up
cum.
Labels: barbie, constitutional law, gerund, Grammar, nounificate, out of her league, palin, Vocabulary