Are we attracting some real .90-caliber pezzonovante here at Inta Rightfield? Could we have garnered the attention of the very subject of a recent posting? Regarding my gentle ribbing of a letter apparently proofread by Helen Keller:
If you are going grade this, then you should make sure you know what you're doing. (1) Consistency in your punctuation. You have a semicolon in the fourth paragraph right before you start your list of three. Then a period before you start you next list of three in the same parapgraph. Which is it. Or should both be colons?
One word: "parapgraph." Note to everyone: private Internet blogs are now subject to the same stringent criteria as published fund-raising letters.
(2) The committee is an "it," not a "they."
Did "the committee" write the letter? Or did the two gentleman who signed their names to it?
You made that mistake twice in the same sentence. Then you made it again three paragraphs later. Then again five paragraphs after that. At least you're consistent.
I'm consistently referring to the authors of the letter, so yes, I suppose I am.
(3) The 1960's is not possessive. It should be 1960s, but you knew that. (4) The question mark after "drawing card" goes inside the quote marks.
Or does it? Good thing I can make mistakes like this and not feel embarrassed that all the people who voted for me will be reading it and snickering at my idiocy. How does that feel, by the way?
Certainly your teachers in Souderton taught you better? Guess this is what happens when you work for daddy's company.
By Anonymous on Monkeys could do Better on 4/10/11
Oh, Anonymous! If only YOU had been there when the letter was being written! You'd have proofread it! Right?
Let's do a little exercise, shall we? What's worse - four questionable mistakes in a blog post it took me 10 minutes to write, or the ocean of errors contained in the intellectual diarrhea stain of a letter that everyone in town received? What's worse - me, humble little Internet blogger, missing a few fine points, or the mayor of a town not being able to write simple English sentences?
I like the "daddy's company" comment. I guess I must be one of those famous Souderton-educated blue-bloods! The CEO of my company is a black guy, and he's certainly not my dad... unless Mom isn't telling me something...
I look forward to future comments in which Mr./Mrs. Anonymous actually addresses my critique of the letter in question.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
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You write the sentence: "Is the person who wrote this an utter retard?" in a diatribe titled "Monkeys could do Better," get called out on it and then describe it in your next blathering as "my gentle ribbing of a letter?" Really? (BTW, "Better" shouldn't be capitalized in that instance.)
ReplyDeleteWhy don't you try helping your community instead of hiding behind Internet anonymity and lobbing verbal grenades at those who are actually out there trying to do something?
You know, I voted for your father because I thought he had a chance to help the community. But he doesn't say much at council meetings and when he does, it's not very substantial. Still, he's out there trying to do good. What is it that you're doing?
You got a good education at SAHS, despite your obvious shortcomings in grammar. Maybe you were dozing off the day the teacher covered "its" and "their."
If you can't or won't help your community, then maybe you should just keep out of it. Souderton doesn't need people like you.
Hey, this is what men do! We jibber-jabber! We break a few balls from behind the bulwark of our anonymity (right, Anonymous?)!
ReplyDeleteAs entertaining as watching you try to correct me is (hint: you're mostly wrong), you're missing the point. That letter was sloppy, unprofessional, and embarrassing - everything that Souderton has become. If you don't get that, you're a moron (but you'll fit right in on Council!).
By the way, "my father" the "Councilman" told me that he dares you - DOUBLE DOG dares you - to come up to him at the next meeting and punch him right in the nose... but he knows you won't, because you're a big CHICKEN! Then he made "ba-kaw" noises.