How to comfort a "grammar Nazi"...

[kentuck]

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[darkangel218]

1. Lmao!!!

[RoverSuswade]

2. I have 2 college degrees and I still

get "who" and "whom" confused.

[elleng]

3. WHO IS here?

That house belongs TO WHOM?

[Sarah Ibarruri]

6. I kinda think of it like this - if you can use "him," you can use "whom" nt

[marybourg]

9. As in - and I can't believe I hear this

all the time - "Him and me went to the store"?

[RebelOne]

17. Yes, that drives me up a tree.

I hate it when someone says "Me and my wife (brother, sister, boyfriend, etc.) went to the store."

[immoderate]

25. What's wrong with going to the store?

Sheesh!

--imm

[Sarah Ibarruri]

39. Him and me? That gave me a migraine! ouch! nt

[RoverSuswade]

26. Sorta like "him-whoming around?"

I wonder if owls are sometimes confused and go "whom-whom-whom"

[Sarah Ibarruri]

38. Yip! Him-whoming! nt

[longship]

4. No soup for you!

Whoops! Wrong nazi.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

5. Theirry're ... that should cover it n/t

[Isoldeblue]

7. Your, you're own man.............

[BlancheSplanchnik]

8. after seeing too many improperly apostrophised "its" lately....

I fear there is no comfort for me.

[Blue_In_AK]

13. The stupid autocorrect on the iPad changes it for me all the time.

They should at least teach these things grammar.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

32. omg! my android gives me the choice.

Of course, that leaves the onus on me to choose correctly.

[Logical]

29. If you get their point who cares? nt

[BlancheSplanchnik]

30. if you have a sense of humor,

Then join me in a chuckle.

I was being humorous. You know, silly hyperbole.

[Logical]

33. Sorry! My bad! nt

[BlancheSplanchnik]

34. pro noblem.

Although "my bad" is ungrammatical, strictly speaking, despite the fact that it has become an idiom which has found its way into the common parlance.








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[Logical]

35. LOL good one! nt

[ManiacJoe]

10. This always gets a good chuckle.

[Revanchist]

18. This one is cute also

[BlancheSplanchnik]

31. bAAAAA. HAAAAA!!!!

[Aerows]

11. I just misspell sastika. n/t

[SCVDem]

12. Me and my wife

Or my wife and I?

Like my Spanish. As long as we can understand each other I'm happy.

[LiberalElite]

23. depends n/t

[Blanks]

14. I see those mixed up to, two often. Just kidding. eom

[valerief]

15. The Oxford Comma

[SCVDem]

16. Yep!

Clear as mud!

[Revanchist]

19. You know how many different style guides there are?

If I followed that rule my papers would have points deducted because we follow the American Psychological Association (APA) publication manual, where it is required to include a comma before the and. In fact, on the reference page you use a comma before the and even if there are only two authors, for example Smith, D. B., & Jones, S. W. I was dinged on that in one of my first papers because I didn't realize it.

[SCVDem]

20. Can you imagine

What they would think about smilies?

Notice there is no heart attack smilie! Doh!

[Revanchist]

21. Can you imagine

A 20 page journal article discussing a medical technique or the result of a clinical trial that included smilies? Some how I don't think the New England Journal of Medicine would publish it. It would be funny if they did though: "Clinical Trial on a Successful Treatment and Cure for Pancreatic Cancer "

[SCVDem]

22. It might not be appropriate

But cures for diseases deserve smilies!

No reason not to celebrate a cure for cancer, aids, etc.

[dragonlady]

24. Actually, that comma is because of a different rule

It's because you are inverting the author's initials (first name) and last name. It's the same if you have only one author: Smith, D.B., Title of article, etc.

[Jim Lane]

36. Right, and so it doesn't apply if the author is a prominent pop singer or a Brazilian soccer star.

In "Smith, D. B., & Jones, S. W.", the "D. B." is akin to an appositive. Like an appositive, it's set off by commas. There would be no comma in a two-item list if the authors were, for example, "Madonna & Ronaldo" or "Prince & Pelé". (At least, I assume that not even the APA manual would call for a weird-looking comma in those listings.)

Incidentally, you'll note that I put the punctuation marks outside the quotation marks when they're not part of the material being quoted. This style is called "logical". The other method, as in this sentence, is called "typographic." British usage favors the former. As an American, I grew up using the latter, but I like logical better, and I sometimes edit Wikipedia who's whose Manual of Style calls for it, so I've gotten into that habit.

[Revanchist]

37. Not on the reference page

It goes like this

Smith, D. B. (2013). Title of article. Publication Name, Volume(Issue), page numbers. doi

[WinkyDink]

27. That's too, to, two much.

[rock]

28. That's two, to, too much!