Moderately Confused by Jeff Stahler for December 22, 2021

Schoolmarm

That’s what you get for writing “Many happy returns”!

Is she an English teacher and did it without thinking?

Grammar got run over by a reindeer.

Have a very Pedant Christmas!

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen her post here at Go.

“This is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put.” – Winston Churchill.

Bur she’ll call it recycling the card to save a forest.

I just want to correct the bad grammar and spelling for the children doing the morning news and weather.

Take her off the list for next year.

THIS is my sister! She would correct the grammar in library books. She was the sort of person, who, if she saw a dead body, with “Your Next” written in blood, would dip her finger in the gore and correct it to read “You’re Next”.

People still send physical Christmas Cards?

Just write something indecipherable and incomprehensible next time. Then see what she does.

They’re tempted to “wreck havoc.”

Ah…but did she give it a grade also?

With a C minus!

Reminds me of a high school English teacher who was fresh out of Boston—took us a couple of weeks to start adding letters to some of the things she said—Grandma and Grammar was the first—she went though boxes of chalk writing out what she was saying……

In reality or in spirit, teachers ALWAYS carry a red pencil. With the faith it will better humanity. And who’s to argue.

B**ch!

The English Nazi LIVES!!!

Reading a book by a prolific author, much respected in his field, I was dismayed to find a number of apostrophe and quotation mark errors at the end of a chapter. If the book had not been published twenty years ago, and the author long ago retired, I would have offered to proofread his future works.

I’m guessing that sis is a middle school English teacher.

Better than one of my brothers, who sent out cards with a pre-embossed message – the “untouched by human hands” approach. When I pointed out the impersonal nature of such cards, the next year he sent me one hand-inscribed “touched by human hands”.

In the true Grammar NAZI style.