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ProfessorF

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Re: Attention Grammar Police: Level 5 Alert

I am a bit confused. Is a Level 5 warning better or worse than a Level 1 warning. If it is worse, what is the highest that the Level warning can go up to before we all die?

We really do need to get this sort of thing cleared up as soon as possible. Lives could be at steak!

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Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:25 pm

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Re: Attention Grammar Police: Level 5 Alert

I kinda figured that Level 1 would be your normal day-to-day sloppiness, with maybe a Level 2 being your common or garden 'postrophe panic.

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Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:27 pm

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Re: Attention Grammar Police: Level 5 Alert

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8139322.stm


	Quote: Monkeys recognise 'bad grammar'

LOL

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Re: Attention Grammar Police: Level 5 Alert

Wow, that's quite a collection there!

And that's only page 1!

First mistake is 6 words in... That has to be a record!

Corrections as far as I can see...

beautiful, (no capital, needs comma)
Daytona Beach, Florida (needs comma)
grammatical break down here... There's a compound mistake that I can't really count properly.

Anyway, the sentence should be thus...

This story begins on a beautiful, sunny day in Daytona Beach, Florida with David Braymer, a 45-year-old, single man who works as a 12th grade science and astronomy (I'm guessing they got the wrong word) teacher at the local high school.

WTF do they keep using "Now" for?!

Cheral's place is how close to the cape? Oh, real close. :roll:

What book is this?!?!

I might have to buy it and correct it before sending it back to the publisher.

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	Fogmeister wrote: WTF do they keep using "Now" for?!

It’s probably been dictated.

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Re: Attention Grammar Police: Level 5 Alert

paulzolo wrote:


	Fogmeister wrote: WTF do they keep using "Now" for?!

It’s probably been dictated.

true.

It looks like they punctuated it with a paintball gun and a sieve.

I don't think I've seen anything as bad as that before.

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Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:02 pm

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Re: Attention Grammar Police: Level 5 Alert

Maybe "David" taught the author when he was a teacher....

Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:19 pm

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Re: Attention Grammar Police: Level 5 Alert

I'd like to bring your attention to the Amazon page for this book -
http://www.amazon.com/Moon-People-Dale- ... 436372135/

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Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:21 pm

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Re: Attention Grammar Police: Level 5 Alert


	Fogmeister wrote: First mistake is 6 words in... That has to be a record!

Nope, First mistake is only 4 words in...it should read:


	Quote: CHAPTER 1 The beginning of the end

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	ProfessorF wrote: I'd like to bring your attention to the Amazon page for this book - http://www.amazon.com/Moon-People-Dale- ... 436372135/

The comments are awesome.

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Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:46 pm

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Re: Attention Grammar Police: Level 5 Alert

Who’s going to point out similarities between the grammatical errors on the first page and the comments then?

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Re: Attention Grammar Police: Level 5 Alert

I am tempted to save the comments on the Amazon page for posterity!

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Wed Jul 08, 2009 5:10 pm

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Re: Attention Grammar Police: Level 5 Alert

It reads like the kind of essey i mite have riten when i was stil at skule. i like how he rites as he lieks, without worying about boring stuf like commers and fulstops and speling rite. he is at the cuting ege of modurn litarachure.

+10 stars!!!

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Re: Attention Grammar Police: Level 5 Alert

Zippy wrote:


	Fogmeister wrote: First mistake is 6 words in... That has to be a record!

Nope, First mistake is only 4 words in...it should read:


	Quote: CHAPTER 1 The beginning of the end

That is 5 words in

(7 if you include the Chapter 1 bit...)

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