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January 10, 2007

Public Service Announcement

icon_abc.jpgI have read and carefully considered every post and every comment on this blog since its inception. And I have come to one conclusion. Y'all need some remedial spelling help. So, here's a helpful crib sheet for the orthographically impaired* among you. Any other obsessive-compulsive word freaks out there should feel free to add any words I've left out.

HYPOCRITE: one who affects virtues or qualities he or she does not have. See also, HYPOCRITICAL, HYPOCRITICALLY, HYPOCRISY

LOSER: one that loses. Compare to LOOSER: less rigidly fastened.

SEPARATE: to set or keep apart, to make a distinction between.

CONSCIENCE: the sense of moral goodness. Compare to CONSCIOUS: capable of, or marked by thought.

ITS: of or relating to it as a possessor. Compare to IT'S: contraction of it is or it has.

THEIR: relating to themselves as possessors. Compare to THEY'RE: contraction of "they are". Compare to THERE: in or at that place.

WEIRD: strange. Compare to WIERD: not a word.

LICENSE: permission to act.

Finally, one bonus punctuation tip! An ELLIPSIS is a mark indicating an omission, espcially of words or letters. It consists of THREE dots (...) or asterisks (***).


* Any leetspeakers have a pass as long as they don't abuse the privilege.

Posted by PaulaG at January 10, 2007 05:56 PM

Comments

And for god's sake people, it's HOMICIDE, not HOMOCIDE.

Posted by: Jen B. [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 10, 2007 06:42 PM

Wurd!

Posted by: griftdrift [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 10, 2007 06:44 PM

D00d! Paula, this post is teh awesome!!1!1! L0Lz! ;)

Posted by: Greg Greene [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 10, 2007 07:40 PM

Another one, though it is not as important after the election, but when talking about a political comercial, it is ad, not add. Everytime i saw "add" I cringed.

Posted by: angrydem [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 10, 2007 09:38 PM

Ugh, n00bs. It is teh educationamal system, teh Bush is teh sux0r. 4 b0t c0uld sp34k b3tt3r.

Posted by: Benson [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 10, 2007 10:08 PM

It's HOMOCIDE in Midtown, OK?

Posted by: Possum [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 10, 2007 10:49 PM

Excuse me stewardess, I speak jive.

Posted by: shelby [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 10, 2007 10:52 PM

Ah, comments from the "Pre-No Child Left Behind"-era.

Posted by: yardman5508 [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 11, 2007 09:15 AM

One important exception to the rule for articulated above for the pesky ellipsis--there are four points when the ellipsis is marking an omission at the end of a sentence.

Posted by: Jenna [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 15, 2007 01:56 PM

Indeed, use four dots to indicate an omission at the end of a sentence. Technically, however, that's not a four-dot ellipsis, rather the usual three-dot ellipsis plus a period.

Posted by: PaulaG [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 15, 2007 03:26 PM

Oh Mother of God! All this talk of DPG and presidential candidates in the plural demands we add another grammar lesson to the blogosphere: do NOT use an apostrophe to denote the plural of a proper noun. To wit:
The punditry is replete with James Carvilles.
We have no Howard Deans lying around in Georgia.
The Clintons are back. Not that they ever left.

Posted by: shelby [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 22, 2007 07:51 PM

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