Argus Reports Wesleyan Suing Former Investment Officer
The Hartford Courant reports Wednesday morning that Wesleyan University has sued its former investment officer Thomas Kannam who is also a member of the board of the local YMCA and Middlesex Community Foundation.
Aarrgh! Can't you see I'm disabled. I know the difference, fer chrissakes, it's just when I write fast, it's not what comes out.
I, for one, think grammar is a load of hooey, for the most part, and that, by and large, grammarians have not written beautiful literature (nor have I), they have only edited it (and the world is better for editors, certainly).
By which I mean, read Browning's A Grammarian's Funeral, and start your own blog with hundreds of handy lessons about its and it's.
Although I disagree with Ed that "grammar is a load of hooey," I'm astounded by these comments. Ed does us a tremendous public service in initiating and keeping the Eye going, and all folks can write in is that he typed "it's" instead of "its"? His articles are models of clarity, written in his spare time, without pay, and at incredible speed. Could our aggrieved grammarians do that? (I'm writing as one who winces visibly every time I hear someone say, "That's between he and I.")
My, it's easy to take potshots when you can stay safe in anonymity.
Ed's a lot more patient than I am. Luckily for us, he has not taken to heart Truman Capote's injunction, "Never make a writer mad."
Mea Culpa - I just wanted to say sorry to someone who posted an anonymous comment yesterday - I deleted it by accident, but the gist of it was this: Stop picking on Ed, and then a suggestion about what people might do with their red pens.
People!!!....the number one rule in the "Internet Handbook Of Social Rights" states that.....and I quote.."Grammar and spelling do not count on the internet".... Thank you
BTW,I woodint use cRaZY grammar on a job app 2 sho my skillz LOL, but for all the n00bs 2 the net out ther: btw, sometx it id’nt how u say sumthin, but the meanin behind thos werds. As long as u git ur pt. across o w/e. w00t! gtg I <3 Ed :)
Thanks to Urban Dictionary, I eventually deciphered your comment. You'll be glad to know that wikipedia offers a helpful glossary of emoticon (that's plural, right?)
Probably many of you won't remember the seemingly omnipresent ads in NYC buses and subways, which invited commuters to learn a simplified form of shorthand. James Merrill even wrote a poem about it:
If U Cn Rd Ths By James Merrill u cn gt a gd jb w hi pa! So thinks a sign in the subway. Think twice when letters disappear Into Commodity's black hole— No turning back from that career. This counterspell may save your soul.
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Yet another teaching moment!
It's a shame this blog still can't get its grammar straight.
Also a shame Wesleyan University has sued its (not it's) former investment officer.
When in doubt, see which of these substitutions will work:
it's = it is
its = belonging to it (his/her/its)
"its" not "it's", please!
Aarrgh! Can't you see I'm disabled. I know the difference, fer chrissakes, it's just when I write fast, it's not what comes out.
I, for one, think grammar is a load of hooey, for the most part, and that, by and large, grammarians have not written beautiful literature (nor have I), they have only edited it (and the world is better for editors, certainly).
By which I mean, read Browning's A Grammarian's Funeral, and start your own blog with hundreds of handy lessons about its and it's.
It could be worse -- you could have Antonin Scalia hounding you for using the non-word "choate".
Although I disagree with Ed that "grammar is a load of hooey," I'm astounded by these comments. Ed does us a tremendous public service in initiating and keeping the Eye going, and all folks can write in is that he typed "it's" instead of "its"? His articles are models of clarity, written in his spare time, without pay, and at incredible speed. Could our aggrieved grammarians do that? (I'm writing as one who winces visibly every time I hear someone say, "That's between he and I.")
My, it's easy to take potshots when you can stay safe in anonymity.
Ed's a lot more patient than I am. Luckily for us, he has not taken to heart Truman Capote's injunction, "Never make a writer mad."
Thanks for the shout-out Ed!
Credit was given to the Argus - last sentence of paragraph 2 on front page (at least in the paper I read this morning).
I missed it in the online reading I did this morning, but, sure enough, it's there.
Anonymous at 9:21am here again: I don't read the Eye every day, and therefore I missed the comments earlier this week about "its" vs. "it's."
So, my comment here was not to pile on more criticism, since I was unaware there had been some prior discussion on this same issue.
Ed, thanks for the Eye, it's (not its) a great resource.
Mea Culpa - I just wanted to say sorry to someone who posted an anonymous comment yesterday - I deleted it by accident, but the gist of it was this: Stop picking on Ed, and then a suggestion about what people might do with their red pens.
-Jen Alexander
People!!!....the number one rule in the "Internet Handbook Of Social Rights" states that.....and I quote.."Grammar and spelling do not count on the internet"....
Thank you
ROTFL!
BTW,I woodint use cRaZY grammar on a job app 2 sho my skillz LOL, but for all the n00bs 2 the net out ther:
btw, sometx it id’nt how u say sumthin, but the meanin behind thos werds.
As long as u git ur pt. across o w/e.
w00t!
gtg
I <3 Ed :)
M4y L33T uN1T3 t3H w0RlD!
Dear Madam N.,
Thanks to Urban Dictionary, I eventually deciphered your comment. You'll be glad to know that wikipedia offers a helpful glossary of emoticon (that's plural, right?)
How very educational!
L4trz,
Nona
Probably many of you won't remember the seemingly omnipresent ads in NYC buses and subways, which invited commuters to learn a simplified form of shorthand. James Merrill even wrote a poem about it:
If U Cn Rd Ths
By James Merrill
u cn gt a gd jb w hi pa!
So thinks a sign in the subway.
Think twice when letters disappear
Into Commodity's black hole—
No turning back from that career.
This counterspell may save your soul.
Children cannot read or write as it is without introducing them to the "Urban Dictionary." Schools are dumbing down enough without these resources.
Perhaps The Middletown Eye should be renamed The Middletown Highbrow. References to our departed Poet Laureate!
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