Grammar annoyances

by **Grotewold** » Sun Oct 29, 2017 18:08:40

I wrongly quoted someone as saying “fall by the waste side” in my first ever news article.

The managing editor goes, “I have no doubt that’s how she said it, but let’s not make her sound like an idiot.”

I was like, “Definitely, yep”

by **JFLNYC** » Sun Oct 29, 2017 21:29:06

That’s when you laugh so hard you soil yourself.

by **Slowhand** » Sun Oct 29, 2017 21:29:19

That’s a real thing.

by **JFLNYC** » Sun Oct 29, 2017 21:31:23

Hence the phrase.

by **phatj** » Sun Apr 01, 2018 08:38:54

Tenet =/= tenant

by **Bucky** » Sun Apr 01, 2018 09:28:25

also =/= Tennent , the guy who donated millions to the warminster school district so they would name the high school after him

by **slugsrbad** » Sun Apr 01, 2018 17:15:02

Bucky wrote:also =/= Tennent , the guy who donated millions to the warminster school district so they would name the high school after him

And we repaid that honor with.. um.. the trench coat commercial guy and a b-list actor

by **The Dude** » Sun Apr 01, 2018 20:38:34

Bucky wrote:also =/= Tennent , the guy who donated millions to the warminster school district so they would name the high school after him

Fake news!

by **Werthless** » Mon Apr 02, 2018 16:49:16

The Dude wrote:
Bucky wrote:also =/= Tennent , the guy who donated millions to the warminster school district so they would name the high school after him

Fake news!

Yup, Bucky is delivering fake news. I was actually on wikipedia the last week looking up the names of my old schools to see where they got their names, given the debate around the Abington high school name. William Tennent founded a school in Warminster in 1727, named Log College, that had about 20 graduates in the 20 years they existed. It indirectly led to the creation of the college of new jersey, which was renamed Princeton.

by **JFLNYC** » Mon Apr 02, 2018 17:23:33

And now Princeton is one of the pillows of our society.

by **slugsrbad** » Mon Apr 02, 2018 18:29:15

Werthless wrote:
The Dude wrote:
Bucky wrote:also =/= Tennent , the guy who donated millions to the warminster school district so they would name the high school after him

Fake news!

Yup, Bucky is delivering fake news. I was actually on wikipedia the last week looking up the names of my old schools to see where they got their names, given the debate around the Abington high school name. William Tennent founded a school in Warminster in 1727, named Log College, that had about 20 graduates in the 20 years they existed. It indirectly led to the creation of the college of new jersey, which was renamed Princeton.

I'm so embarrassed to have no called him out as an alum of both Tennent and Log College Middle School. I did only sleep 3.5 hours Saturday into Sunday and was about to drive from DC to Warminster, it's still no excuse.

by **Bucky** » Mon Apr 02, 2018 18:30:41

you guys knew i was riffing on abington right

by **Werthless** » Tue Apr 03, 2018 14:30:34

slugsrbad wrote:
Werthless wrote:
The Dude wrote:
Bucky wrote:also =/= Tennent , the guy who donated millions to the warminster school district so they would name the high school after him

Fake news!

Yup, Bucky is delivering fake news. I was actually on wikipedia the last week looking up the names of my old schools to see where they got their names, given the debate around the Abington high school name. William Tennent founded a school in Warminster in 1727, named Log College, that had about 20 graduates in the 20 years they existed. It indirectly led to the creation of the college of new jersey, which was renamed Princeton.

I'm so embarrassed to have no called him out as an alum of both Tennent and Log College Middle School. I did only sleep 3.5 hours Saturday into Sunday and was about to drive from DC to Warminster, it's still no excuse.

I spent time in the Centennial school district, so I was looking up all of those schools. Didnt attend all of them. I was looking up William Davis Elementary and didnt get very far. William Tennent was at least an interesting answer.

by **ashton** » Sun Sep 09, 2018 13:24:32

An article about a woman named Babs who's trying to cancel her gym membership.

Here's a sample sentence:

Eventually, Babs worked their way up to the general manager of the LA Fitness, who told them that even they couldn’t cancel their membership without the operations manager.

Is this now considered okay? Is there anyone here who thinks that's an acceptable way to write that sentence?

by 1 » Sun Sep 09, 2018 13:29:46

Yes. This was deemed acceptable by some style guides recently because of gender inclusion. Sacrifice clarity for feelings.

by **swishnicholson** » Sun Sep 09, 2018 15:20:28

1 wrote:Yes. This was deemed acceptable by some style guides recently because of gender inclusion. Sacrifice clarity for feelings.

However, something can be okay and still be annoying, so I will allow ashton's post.

by **JUburton** » Mon Sep 10, 2018 16:01:53

It's acceptable in situations where gender isn't known or germane so this particular usage is incorrect. Unless this person defines herself as non-binary...which does not seem to be the case.

I think the AP recently changed to allow a phrase like 'If someone were to take their car to this shop...' instead of 'If someone were to take his or her car to this shop...'

by **mtcal** » Wed Sep 12, 2018 22:33:44

the change manager of IT who creates all of our documentation for both IT and for users doesn't believe in the oxford comma

ugh

by **Bucky** » Wed Sep 12, 2018 22:35:15

mtcal wrote:the change manager of IT, who creates all of our documentation for both IT and for users, doesn't believe in the oxford comma

ugh

by **mtcal** » Fri Sep 14, 2018 15:12:45

never realized this. my world is changed.

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