I recently received this comment to one of my posts:
# annoyed Says:
January 9th, 2008 at 12:51 pm e
This all seems to be written by a know-it-all asshole using this blog as a place to show off his english vocabulary. You are more annoying than the redneck American in the traffic jam video.
This morning, I got this one:
# Grammar Nazi Says:
February 9th, 2008 at 1:43 am eSeriously… this is a pretty funny article, but c’mon, if you’re going to poke fun at someone else for their use of the English language, you should probably make some sort of attempt to get it right yourself. “One of the things you that is so amazing about teaching English as a foreign language”? What the hell does that even mean? That line is so twisted, it’s scary! “Have you ever been beamed with a softball? Ouch!” It’s not “beamed”, it’s “beaned”… with an “N”. That’s not even counting the numerous grammatical errors in your post. The idea behind the post is great, and funny… but making fun of someone else’s English skills in an article riddled with English errors just makes you look bad.
It takes all kinds. Thanks for sharing, readers.
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Always good to stir up a little passion in your readers!
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phooey! This is my first time to visit your blog and I’m having a great time. Your posts bring back plenty of good (albeit strange) memories of my time in Asia.
As for this “traffic jam video” I would like to see a copy myself. Sounds like a riot!
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So you have a few errors, so what, I bet they aren’t perfect either. Anyway, I find your posts hilarious. Besides, adding a witty dialogue to something that would be funny just to look at isn’t really ‘poking fun at someone else’, it’s just pointing out the obvious. :oD
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I was watching auto racing on TV last night. An announcer described a driver as “literally sitting on pins and needles.” I was wondering, if this was literally true, why not use only pins or needles? How would the combination enhance the effect? And don’t even get me started about how that might affect his driving, regardless of the specific kind of pokers…
Anyway, I just stumbled across your blog, which rules. Also the photo with your kid is the cutest photo ever.
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My first time too, and I’m enjoying it. I see you’ve changed ‘beamed’ to ‘beaned’ in deference to the Grammar Nazi - I think your original is defensible, though, especially in the context of ball games. A ball bowled at the head in cricket is a ‘beamer’. While I’ve not heard the verb in general use, I would imagine the recipient could consider himself ‘beamed’.
Keep up the good work…
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I love! Love! the new format. Terrific.
xoxooxB&B