Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for September 20, 2018

Turned over by the grammar police and ready for his punishment!

Then we’ll work on ‘your and you’re’ and ‘sight, site, and cite.’

Then we’ll move on to the proper uses of lay, lie, and laid.

Harsh!

Finally, someone is cracking down on these internet bastards!!!!

This will affect you so much that it’ll have the effect of teaching you the difference between affect and effect.

I usually don’t post here… but the idea of correcting the flagrant misuse of “peak, peek and pique” has piqued my curiosity….

Perhaps, if the holding cell isn’t too full….

might there be room to add those, even magazine writers, who can’t tell phase from faze?

I’ll be waiting with “baited” breath….. sigh….

I am with the Fink here! Time someone stood up for good language!

Let him have it, Fink.

A required piece of educational equipment in every English class.

Thus the King of Id became the world’s first grammar Nazi.

Not everybody would support the Fink’s radical approach to education, but there’s no such thing as stretching it too far in Id!

King is write about that!

Sounds as though he’s stretching things a bit….

Excuse me! ‘Theirs’ no excuse for that!

Compliment vs complement

That’s stretching the point.

You forgot to include the cell phone.

Did not appreciate that grind in school, but truly am happy now that it stuck. As a former teacher of language and mechanics, I also experienced the frustration my teachers must have felt, which made me appreciate their efforts all the more. I had days when I could hear their laughter in the background.

Oh yes. I approve of this as a way to teach people the difference.

I imply from this that he should of bin smarter, to.

then we of the UK/Canada/Australia language, get reprimanded for our use of colour, neighbour, centre, flavour, arbour, calibre, and so on….

The Fink is a substitute English teacher? Who knew?

Ya gotta love the English (or American, as the case may be) language. Now, if Microsoft could just come up with a homonym checker.

Then and than, loose and lose, its and it’s, apostrophes in plurals… If the people who make such errors only knew what the errors tell us: “I am ignorant because I don’t read.” Words matter. Writing is the most important invention in human history and its importance cannot be surpassed by any future invention.

He is guilty of even more: your, you’re, refuse, refute, reply, revert

You need to speed up the process, your majesty. There are roughly 7 billion internet users in line waiting for that lesson

I am to tired too count two to! ;o}

Please do the lay/lie lesson next! And I/me/myself after that!

YES!!!!!

Is it bad that I empathize with the king on this matter?

I’ve used this one before…

As the grammar police held their demonstration of contractions by holding up signs in the park, a stranger asked about a particular word his buddies were displaying. The response was

Their “they’re” is over there.

Now rearrange the words.

Someone finally gets it.

Next. Compare “its” to “it’s”.

And I’ll still wear my crown!

NO ONE EXPECTS the Grammar Inquisition!!!

And I thought my English teacher was tough!!!!

Really worked. Unfortunately, when they let him off the rack, he told them, “Hey, its not so bad.”

He is just working in his part time job as a chiropractor.

Word Crimes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc

Yeah, and verily. The Internet has brought out all the dolts in the wide world.

I remember the great Gary Larson addressing complaints about this kind of humor (should we really make fun of torture?), and his response was something like, “I hope my critics are taking a look at the Wizard of Id!!!” Say, nobody beats this Wiz… ;)

She too had to try on two tutus.

They’re over there by their luggage.

Grammar police got him. Another wastrel re-educated..

My dyslexic younger daughter has forced me to re-think my former membership in the grammar police. She says she likes the spelling in Spanish better, because it follows (mostly) consistent rules. Maybe one day I will even learn to tolerate it when people use the word “loose” instead of “lose”.

They’re picky about their language there.

That’s the way we learned it in the old days…

Why isn’t phonics spelled like it sounds? Also the way fish is spelled – ghoti.gh as in enough, o as in women, and ti as in attention.

ghoti spells fish, gh as in enough, o as in women and ti as in attention.

what about “yore”, as in days of … ?

A friend once told me a very common contraction was not in the dictionary, then she hauled out her dictionary and showed me the absence. I checked my own dictionary and found it wasn’t there. It was a common one, one of the “not” contractions, I believe, but we have lost touch and now I can’t remember what the word was.