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Grammar Police a.k.a. Grammar Cops & Comma Clout<\/h1>\nGrammar Police a.k.a. Grammar Cops & Comma Clout<\/h1>\nI have long been the target of grammar police and pedantic readers who take me to task for my use — or misuse — of the English language. Someone asked me once, if English was my second language. Obviously not, I retorted, I’ve speaked English since I was bored, decades ago, right here in Ohio, USA.<\/p>\n
Because of my literary sloppiness, you, my friends, are not required to use perfect grammar when submitting questions or comments to us. Believe it or not, we know of a site, run by someone who actually warns users, that if they submit questions or comments to him that contain grammatical errors, he will not reply!<\/p>\n
No wonder he never answers me!<\/p>\n
I’m being verbose as I am often wont to do. But without such verbosity, this article would only be about seventy-five words long and thus, too short, for this spritely newsletter.<\/p>\n
I ramble no more.<\/p>\n
Today, my grammar-o-phile friends, we feature two sites where you’re either going to spend hours looking for some minor grammatical slip-up, or you’re just going to take off your grammar police badge and relax and laugh. I prefer you do the latter, but as we all know by now, you don’t much care what I prefer. I prefer you don’t pick apart my grammatical guffaws. Why not let a few slide. It’s not easy being me, I tells ya!<\/p>\n
Without further rambling, yammering or other unnecessary discourse, I present, for your critical review and\/or amusement the following to grammar-related blogs:<\/p>\n
1. Grammar Police a.k.a. GrammarCops<\/p>\n
They don’t have a lot to say, considering their ilk. However, this is what they have to say about their blog entitled, “Grammar Police a.k.a. GrammarCops”<\/p>\n
Grammar, language, and usage observations, ramblings, and questions by us and others<\/p>\n
Don’t overlook the section links at the top of the page or you’ll miss out on:<\/p>\n
GrammarGallows – Offenders
\nGrammarGroupies – Tweeple
\nGrammar Guard – Deputies<\/p>\n
And more. I’m sure you’ll be interested in learning how we mortals – not you grammar cops – all make mistakes. For instance: How many of you say — “Daylight Savings Time”? Raise your hand. It figures you’d be one, EB. It’s not Daylight SavingS Time – it’s Daylight Saving Time. Now you know.<\/p>\n
You’ll know more if you visit Grammar Police a.k.a. GrammarCops.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n And — I’m almost done, I swear. As long as we’re picking on grammar, I want to point you to one of Grammar Police a.k.a. GrammarCops’ sister sites called Comma Clout – The Clout of the Comma.<\/p>\n The comma does has a lot of clout, you know. Who can forget:<\/p>\n Let’s eat grandpa.<\/p>\n or<\/p>\n Let’s eat, grandpa.<\/p>\n or<\/p>\n \u201cA woman, without her man, is nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n Which EB corrected to:<\/p>\n \u201cA woman: without her, man is nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n If you are an effete, intellectual grammar cop, you know all about that. Right? Commas count.<\/p>\n To see how much commas count, visit our lesser site of the week, a sibling to our site of the week, yet nonetheless a site you’ll enjoy. You gotta love that sentence, grammar cops!<\/p>\n Commas have clout – come visit Comma Clout right now<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Let’s eat EB.<\/p>\n Let’s eat, EB.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Grammar Police a.k.a. Grammar Cops & Comma Clout I have long been the target of grammar police and pedantic readers who take me to task for my use — or misuse — of the English language. Someone asked me once, if English was my second language. Obviously not, I retorted, I’ve speaked English since I was bored, decades\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12364,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12363\/revisions\/12364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}