tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30017373.post7442270743295741045..comments2024-01-29T08:28:26.187-05:00Comments on Nellie Blog: Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16807727819590358834noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30017373.post-61346233067289509582011-05-28T01:55:07.659-04:002011-05-28T01:55:07.659-04:00Haha, thanks, Mike, for not being bias against me!...Haha, thanks, Mike, for not being bias against me! :)Jeena R. Papaadihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07532015053846532037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30017373.post-31796631376267796322011-05-27T18:28:29.369-04:002011-05-27T18:28:29.369-04:00Jean, I've seen one or two unsteady phrases in...Jean, I've seen one or two unsteady phrases in the casual commentary on your blog, but never in the stories and more formal pieces. Besides, I suspect English isn't even your second language, so you get a free pass anyway. <br /><br />See? I'm not bias against you!Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16807727819590358834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30017373.post-2493774868324638672011-05-27T11:30:19.342-04:002011-05-27T11:30:19.342-04:00Ouch! I don't know how many of those mistakes ...Ouch! I don't know how many of those mistakes I make in my writing! My only excuse when/if it happens would be... it's a foreign language after all. ;)Jeena R. Papaadihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07532015053846532037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30017373.post-70184874114083598432011-05-26T23:32:19.224-04:002011-05-26T23:32:19.224-04:00My elementary school years were [mostly] in the 19...My elementary school years were [mostly] in the 1950s; lots of penmanship drills but they didn't work. I took a full year of typing as soon as I could in high school and prefer a keyboard to a pen whenever given the choice.<br /><br />Bias as an adjective? Google returns 4400 hits for "biast against"; is that any better?Mark Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16294712435189215667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30017373.post-11530724848023653822011-05-26T11:42:49.734-04:002011-05-26T11:42:49.734-04:00"Wouls" is an innocent typo. Don't h..."Wouls" is an innocent typo. Don't hate me because my fingers are faster than my brain.Brian Fieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347700145666751363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30017373.post-81548599074474776802011-05-26T11:40:44.832-04:002011-05-26T11:40:44.832-04:00A not uncommon hobby among erstwhile editors. I kn...A not uncommon hobby among erstwhile editors. I know one--a very intelligent, accomplished man who was an important mentor to me when I was a teen and is now in his eighties. Among his many careers was newspaper editor. I believe to this day he still marks up an occasional front page and mails it to his old paper. (I was going to write "former colleagues" but I'm sure they're all gone now. The punks there now probably just wonder who the crazy old guy is.) <br /><br />Keep on fighting the fight. It might (or may) make a difference. After all, you turned me around on "alright." I still can't bring myself to use it but it no longer sets my teeth on edge, for which my dentist and I thank you.<br /><br />And Sherwood, handwriting is dead, didn't you read the obit? When I was in elementary school in the mid-sixties, we were drilled relentlessly on cursive for at least a year. When my kids were in elementary school (ca. 1997) they studied it for a week or two. Nowadays I don't think kids get that much. When they're not typing, everybody prints.<br /><br />One of my fantasies is that I'll become a high school English teacher and I'll spend the year drilling my students to write simple sentences with subjects and verbs that follow one another to express a thought or build an argument. With good spelling. It's a simple crazy dream, but it's mine.<br /><br />Hearing someone use "bias" as a adjective wouls make me violent. Do people really do that, or is it just one ignorant person with a quirk?Brian Fieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347700145666751363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30017373.post-26717990472827446152011-05-25T23:20:54.268-04:002011-05-25T23:20:54.268-04:00I wish that most of my students wrote well enough ...I wish that most of my students wrote well enough that the use of may or might would even be an issue. Instead, I find that most of my red ink on written test questions goes to trying to push away the horrid plague of text-messaging shorthand. u no what I mean?<br /><br />Penmanship is going down the crapper, too. Most of these kids are more used to forming words with their thumbs than with a pen or pencil.<br /><br />ronnie, I haven't yet seen that particular abomination ("bias" as an adjective), but it will probably work its way out here soon.Sherwood Harringtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09575868746160608731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30017373.post-63620347054461865342011-05-25T09:18:54.300-04:002011-05-25T09:18:54.300-04:00I am glad that you have the professional credentia...I am glad that you have the professional credentials to buttress this particular pet peeve. I am tired of being just a cranky old lady who merely wants to know the facts of the matter, without apparently contradictory conjectures. Where is the dear old subjunctive when you need it.<br /><br />Bless you, my boy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30017373.post-48229011901304740342011-05-24T18:32:37.523-04:002011-05-24T18:32:37.523-04:00We need all the grammar curmudgeons we can muster ...We need all the grammar curmudgeons we can muster against the ever-increasing tide of bad grammar. Even more alarming than the sea of examples out there is the increasingly common attitude that if enough people make a particular grammar mistake, we should just accept it as the new norm.<br /><br />My personal pet peeve these days is the fact that the noun "bias" is increasingly used as an adjective. "I was trying not to be bias, but I really felt Montreal played the better game." It's like people don't even know the word "biased" exists anymore.<br /><br />Bah! Get these bad writers offa my lawn!ronniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14044863062652781155noreply@blogger.com