| x404.co.uk http://x404.co.uk/forum/ |
|
| Attention Grammar Police: Level 5 Alert http://x404.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1666 |
Page 1 of 2 |
| Author: | ProfessorF [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Attention Grammar Police: Level 5 Alert |
|
|
|
| Author: | John_Vella [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Attention Grammar Police: Level 5 Alert |
I am a bit confused. Is a Level 5 warning better or worse than a Level 1 warning. If it is worse, what is the highest that the Level warning can go up to before we all die? We really do need to get this sort of thing cleared up as soon as possible. Lives could be at steak! 
|
|
| Author: | ProfessorF [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Attention Grammar Police: Level 5 Alert |
I kinda figured that Level 1 would be your normal day-to-day sloppiness, with maybe a Level 2 being your common or garden 'postrophe panic. |
|
| Author: | AlunD [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 2:13 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Attention Grammar Police: Level 5 Alert | |||||||||
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8139322.stm
LOL |
||||||||||
| Author: | Fogmeister [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 2:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Attention Grammar Police: Level 5 Alert |
Wow, that's quite a collection there! And that's only page 1! First mistake is 6 words in... That has to be a record! Corrections as far as I can see... beautiful, (no capital, needs comma) Daytona Beach, Florida (needs comma) grammatical break down here... There's a compound mistake that I can't really count properly. Anyway, the sentence should be thus... This story begins on a beautiful, sunny day in Daytona Beach, Florida with David Braymer, a 45-year-old, single man who works as a 12th grade science and astronomy (I'm guessing they got the wrong word) teacher at the local high school. WTF do they keep using "Now" for?! Cheral's place is how close to the cape? Oh, real close.  What book is this?!?! I might have to buy it and correct it before sending it back to the publisher. |
|
| Author: | paulzolo [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 2:59 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Attention Grammar Police: Level 5 Alert | |||||||||
It’s probably been dictated. |
||||||||||
| Author: | Fogmeister [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:02 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Attention Grammar Police: Level 5 Alert | ||||||||||||||||||
 true.It looks like they punctuated it with a paintball gun and a sieve. I don't think I've seen anything as bad as that before. |
|||||||||||||||||||
| Author: | PaulKey [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Attention Grammar Police: Level 5 Alert |
Maybe "David" taught the author when he was a teacher.... 
|
|
| Author: | ProfessorF [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Attention Grammar Police: Level 5 Alert |
I'd like to bring your attention to the Amazon page for this book - http://www.amazon.com/Moon-People-Dale- ... 436372135/ |
|
| Author: | Zippy [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:35 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Attention Grammar Police: Level 5 Alert | ||||||||||||||||||
Nope, First mistake is only 4 words in...it should read:
|
|||||||||||||||||||
| Author: | jonlumb [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:46 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Attention Grammar Police: Level 5 Alert | |||||||||
The comments are awesome. |
||||||||||
| Author: | paulzolo [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 4:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Attention Grammar Police: Level 5 Alert |
Who’s going to point out similarities between the grammatical errors on the first page and the comments then? |
|
| Author: | Linux_User [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 5:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Attention Grammar Police: Level 5 Alert |
I am tempted to save the comments on the Amazon page for posterity! 
|
|
| Author: | F_A_F [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 5:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Attention Grammar Police: Level 5 Alert |
It reads like the kind of essey i mite have riten when i was stil at skule. i like how he rites as he lieks, without worying about boring stuf like commers and fulstops and speling rite. he is at the cuting ege of modurn litarachure. +10 stars!!! |
|
| Author: | finlay666 [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 5:57 pm ] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Attention Grammar Police: Level 5 Alert | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
That is 5 words in  (7 if you include the Chapter 1 bit...)
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Page 1 of 2 | All times are UTC |
| Powered by phpBB® Forum Software © phpBB Group https://www.phpbb.com/ |
|
