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Originally posted by Mark Dexter
..it really wasn't me who posted the grammatically incorrect version of a Monty Python paraphrase. While the matter is still under investigation, I suspect that Juulie stole my password and posted that so that she could be known as the sole grammar Nazi of the board.
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I confess it all. It's been so tough living in the shadow of Genevieve Cole, my grandmother, who was sought out by publishers and writers to correct manuscripts and teach proper grammar. I've scolded, reprimanded, and cajoled for years; I've studied, slaved and labored over Henry Fielding, Jane Austen and Charles Dickens to study the history of the use of daily language. I have always hoped to establish my own reputation as Grammar Nazi Par Excellence, and it's so frustrating to see this young punk just step in and heedlessly, non-chalantly take over!! It's not fair!! I've earned it, I've worked for it, and no one is going to deprive me of it No ONE, do you hear me?!? I, I , I am going to rule the grammar world single-handedly, because I AM THE BEST!!!
Ha..Ha..Ha Ha Hahahaha..Take this Mark Dexter, you Tyro, you NeoPhyte -- can you tell off the top of your head the Plu-Perfect Subjunctive of the verb, to screw? Can you spot the five run-on sentences in Dickens' Bleak House? Can you recite the longest sentence in the English language in which all grammar rules of the author's contemporaries were strictly observed? I didn't think so. No one will ever understand these things after I'm gone.. it's all so unfair...
Okay...
I'll go quietly; I'm so sorry, so sorry, I never meant to hurt anyone. Dexter, just remember: the slavish avoidance of the gerund clause is the most telling mark of a student. And remember who taught you that...
...and someone please send tapes of the women's NCAA final four. I'll miss you all so much..
[Edited by rainmaker on Aug 12th, 2003 at 03:10 PM]