irregardless

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Wed Sep 22 16:35:26 UTC 2010


On 22 September 2010 17:04, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22 September 2010 15:50, Mark Widdicombe <mwiddicombe at shoprite.co.za> wrote:
>> Ahhh.  Abuse of punctuation marks.  I thought only adolescent schoolgirls did this.
>
> *Big grin* Y'see, the /reason/ some people hate grammar-nazis is that
> they frequently abuse grammar - and spelling and punctuation and so on
> - and hate getting called on it.

That is the difference between a grammar-nazi and those of us who just
like to see things writ down proper.  A grammar-nazi hates getting
found out on an error of their own, we take delight in getting taken
to task as it means others are also keen on getting things right.

Colin




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