Grammar Police (with an addendum)

Been a while since I blogged one of those silly Blogthings quizzes, but I do keep them on my feeder in case an interesting one catches my eye. Yesterday this quiz popped up, and for those of you who know me, with my low tolerance for spelling/grammar errors (IM excepted, of course) I would be remiss in my role as the lovingly-dubbed "Grammar Nazi" if I didn't take it.

So here goes:

You Scored an A

You got 10/10 questions correct. It's pretty obvious that you don't make basic grammatical errors. If anything, you're annoyed when people make simple mistakes on their blogs. As far as people with bad grammar go, you know they're only human. And it's humanity and its current condition that truly disturb you sometimes.

The It's Its There Their They're Quiz

This reminds me of a couple of Livejournal communities I particularly enjoy. I stumbled across them when Jenna first blogged, a couple years ago, about some outrageously funny entries in mock_the_stupid. From there, I found these two communities, which always provide some entertainment. Sometimes I even learn something new!

Grammar Whores and Grammar Police

I had to come back and edit this post after playing around a bit on Facebook and sending myself a gift using its "Free Gift" application. I received the email notification for it, and what do you think it said? Have a look:



I realize that it's just filling in a form that would've otherwise normally read something like "Jane sent you a free gift", but honestly? Would it have been that difficult to simply plug in my own name, so it would at least read "Helly sent you a free gift"? While that might create a philosophical conundrum, at least it would be grammatically correct. And that is, after all, the important thing! :-D

(originally posted at: http://www.myspace.com/hellykwee/blog/307701428)