SANDBOX GRAMMARIANS CONVENE, CONDEMN

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Okay, let's just start off with a fuchsia misspelling, in the latest issue of Poetry, of all places, in W.S. Di Piero's poem "City Dog." "Fuschia." W.S.! You boob! You don't use spellcheck? You have no dictionary? No horticulturist friends?

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh Estie.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost: it's FOOH you arse!

― nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

this isn't grammar, neither, but what is it with UK newsprint publications and their capricious attitude towards periods, a.k.a. full stops - especially those that mark the end of an article? i run into this syndrome constantly. in last week's TLS, f'rinstance, the bizarre review of the probably bizarre-er "zombies and consciousness" (oxford press) end as follows:

"It is because he underestimates the depth and variety of zombist positions that his arguments fails"

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

stfu

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Perhaps it was written by a zombie. For the undead there is no ending.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

zombist :)

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

It sounds like it wasn't properly subbed, and has run over its box. There's another bit of the sentence you can't re

― stet (stet), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link

ha ha 'zombist'

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

"throw him out, he's undead!"

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

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