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 Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 9:00 pm
You know you're obsessed with grammar when...
You hate when people in a grammar guild spell grammar as "grammer."
You saw the sign on the back of your high school's drama room door that read, "Id turn back if I were you..." and proceeded to staple an apostrophe in to fix it.
You go through all your friends posts on Xanga/MySpace and correct them. Fully.
You have begun to call yourself the Grammar Fairy.
You went to college orientation, found a paper introducing your group leader and what room they were in, and proceeded to correct it fully and signed it with your grammar advocacy name.
There ya go, folks.
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Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 2:01 am
RebelJediKnight06 You hate when people in a grammar guild spell grammar as "grammer." I hate it when people spell "grammar" as "grammer" when applying to join this guild.
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Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 6:56 am
You find yourself reading a book and holding a pencil, correcting grammar errors.
It's happened to me once. The author used really bad grammar since it was mostly about drug dealers and such. I couldn't get past the 10th page. Oh, why must I be this a**l. XD
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Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 10:37 am
You know you're obsessed with good grammer when you start to twitch at the sight of any mistakes.
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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 2:54 pm
When your friend starts screaming 'The grammar queen/king is here!' everytime you enter a room.
Your mother/father start asking you to edit their reports for work.
You find grammar mistakes in six different languages.
You can correct PHD level grammar.
You can glance at a paper and notice the smallest of typos.
People run in fright from you so that you don't lecture them on good grammar.
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:25 pm
Ooo! Ooo! I have some!
*Your friends start to pick up on your skills and begin to correct their own friends' grammar.
*So does the 15 year old down the street.
*Your 8-year-old sister correctly punctuates her sentences and reads on the 8th grade reading level because you taught her how.
*You have to bite your tongue until you bleed to keep yourself from correcting your teacher and boss's grammar, thereby causing massive scarring on the inside of your mouth. Ditto to your mother.
*You correct the love letters you find on the floor of your AP gov class and, with the help of your best friend and fellow classmates, proceed to correct every error in red pen and grade it. Afterward you stick it to the blackboard with an eggplant-shaped magnet.
*You go through the MSDS in the back of the concession stand at work and, with your best friend, assess the punctuation and grammatical errors with pursed lips.
* You do the same with the Employee Manuel and also correct it with a pencil. You are one of two who have done this ever- the other person is your best friend.
*You find grammatical errors in other languages.
*You thank your best friend when she corrects your grammar, and she thanks you when you do the same.
*You assume anyone who TypeS lyke ths 2 bee A n00b... regardless of how long they have been on Gaia. (That was the first time I have ever typed like that in my life. I am going to go boil my hands now. Ceao.)
Hooray!
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:05 pm
Most of these things apply to me. How embarassing!
You chastise your English teacher for misspelling words on a test.
Also, you look for spelling and grammar mistakes in every test you take.
(I have done this on the SAT, ACT, and various IQ tests. I found nine errors in the SAT I took, two in the IQ tests, and one in the practice ASVAB!)
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:12 pm
WAIT A MINUTE!!!!! OBSESSED IS SPELLED INCORRECTLY IN THE TITLE!
You typed "obessed". Did anyone notice this already, and I'm just slow on the uptake?
Also, wouldn't it be, "You know you're obsessed with proper grammar when..."
I don't know. The word proper just seems to fit with the sentence. When you say "good grammar", I think, "What's evil grammar, then? Leetspeak?"
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 8:47 am
-You look forward to grammar homework.
-You get a warning from a teacher for being too loud while discussing the correct use of the apostrophe in the quiet news room.
-Conversations about grammar are often high points in your day.
-You're too sick to go to school, so you miss your first three-hour lecture and return for grammar class to hear about the semi-colon, despite the urge to vomit.
-When you are unable to sleep at 3am, you go through handouts from teachers and newspapers to find the mistakes within them.
-You get disgustingly excited when someone claims to be "well" instead of "good."
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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 9:22 pm
How about this? The first thing you notice when you read your exam paper is the misplaced apostrophe in one of the question, and you didn't even have to do that question. (This happened to me today. The paper was from the CSSA, and there were some questions on things that haven't been covered in class yet, and the school is not allowed to modify the paper.)
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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:05 pm
When bilingual family members get sick of talking to you in english because you correct them too much.
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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:44 pm
You know that you're obbssed with good grammer when...You carry a dictonary around in your pocket and when someone uses bad grammer you thow it at their head.
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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 8:26 am
You know you're obsessed with good grammar when...
...you try to only join literate casino chat rooms.
...you point out any and all grammar errors/typos that you find on a piece of written work.
PotO lovers: ...you burst out laughing every time Firmin says "And what is it that I'm meant to have wrote-- written?"
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Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 8:06 am
You correct strangers' grammar.
You correct the newspaper with a red pen.
You collect long words, such as antidisestablishmentarianism, as a hobby.
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Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 4:13 pm
Elizabeth Hawkeye ...so that you don't kecture them on good grammar. "Lecture." heart When you post on any forum-based website... then hit edit to correct all those mistakes... then post it again... read through it to find a few more tiny mistakes... then post again... and continue this ritual for a half-hour, picking it apart until it's just perfect.Also, when chatting with friends, you constantly correct them as follows: xxxx: I jus bougt a new car dawg!!1 Vicky: just bought^ Vicky: , dog!^ Vicky: Also, I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't call me that. xxxx: Whatevr. Vicky: Whatever^ xxxx: stressed ...and correct yourself in the same way, due to your fast-paced messy typing skills.
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