I don’t know why or how I didn’t notice this before now. It was only when I had to commit the egregious Crime of Misspelling when entering the “skip the ad” word into the video player box when all I wanted to do was watch Russell Brand go off on some heckler at his stand-up [...]
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Grammar Nerd
I grew up in a little town in the Florida panhandle, just across the bay from Destin. Niceville is a real place with real people and a real Mullet Festival. But it seems that since I left my parents’ home behind and spread my flabby batwings in 1996, things have fallen to shit. I blame [...]
I implore you to heed the suggestion I present: Hire qualified writers. The first step is simple; read the written words on a writer’s blog. Take the extra two minutes it takes to scan our blog posts and our published articles. While you’re reading those posts and articles, pay close attention to the writing abilities [...]
In an Awesome twist of irony, it’s currently Be Nice on the Internet Week. Surprisingly, this wasn’t a Hallmark-created holiday, but rather a movement started by Real Simple magazine. I may not use their redefined acronyms (W.T.F. = Why That’s Fabulous; F.U. = Friendly Uprising; M.Y.O.B. = Make Your Own Bliss), but I do like [...]
My family has a quirk. Or as some people may call it, a sickness. We were inbred with a part of our brain that does not allow for grammatical errors to go unnoticed. My sister and I grew up living with a corrective father who would publicly chide us for our improper usage of the words “brought vs. [...]
