Grammar Nazi
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So, this is the "two-rd" floor? Is that where the bathroom is located?
Sounds good, though you're not a typo yourself.
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One of the doctors talks to us on his dictations and he starts like this" "Steno, can you please send a copy to..."
Steno??!
I could watch Schoolhouse Rock all day.... loved, loved, loved it growing up....
2rd... hmmm.... Two-rd (<do1you9love) or Turd......
2rd... hmmm.... Two-rd (<do1you9love) or Turd......
As a director of FX, I affected the effect, so that it affected effects, to the director's specs, in effect, affecting the effect of the FX.
Okay, anyone catch Fox's The Last Man on Earth? I watched some of that. It's okay; an interesting concept.
But there's a character on it, at least in the first episode, that corrects another character for ending sentences with a preposition. It actually was fun to listen to her rewriting statements and making them sound odd (although correct).
Which brings me to the following. Did I do this right? Here is a paragraph from a post I wrote in another section of the board:
"And it's funny, I'm a big fan of the found-footage genre in movies. Many people despise that genre, but I like it. For some reason, I find the epistolary (?) sections of Carrie intriguing and genuinely entertaining. The entire story could almost be related in that manner and successfully convey a higher level of satisfaction than of which the novel as we know it is capable."
Did I write the last sentence properly? It reads strange. Originally I was going to write:
"The entire story could almost be related in that manner and successfully convey a higher level of satisfaction than the novel as we know it is capable of."
I suppose a better way to write it would be:
"The entire story could almost be related in that manner and successfully convey a higher level of satisfaction than the novel as we know it is capable."
But if I want to retain the prepositional structure, did I at least write it, albeit wordily, correctly?
But there's a character on it, at least in the first episode, that corrects another character for ending sentences with a preposition. It actually was fun to listen to her rewriting statements and making them sound odd (although correct).
Which brings me to the following. Did I do this right? Here is a paragraph from a post I wrote in another section of the board:
"And it's funny, I'm a big fan of the found-footage genre in movies. Many people despise that genre, but I like it. For some reason, I find the epistolary (?) sections of Carrie intriguing and genuinely entertaining. The entire story could almost be related in that manner and successfully convey a higher level of satisfaction than of which the novel as we know it is capable."
Did I write the last sentence properly? It reads strange. Originally I was going to write:
"The entire story could almost be related in that manner and successfully convey a higher level of satisfaction than the novel as we know it is capable of."
I suppose a better way to write it would be:
"The entire story could almost be related in that manner and successfully convey a higher level of satisfaction than the novel as we know it is capable."
But if I want to retain the prepositional structure, did I at least write it, albeit wordily, correctly?