Friday Funnies: 10 Signs You Are A Grammar Nerd

[achacunsagloire]

When you're a grammar nerd, there's nothing quite like seeing an entire scroll's worth of Facebook status updates filled with erroneous grammar to make your skin crawl.  It's even worse if you find yourself immersed in a gripping read (that you paid for, too) only to spy--gasp!--an incorrectly conjugated verb that the editor failed to notice.  And

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[navyvet90]

Omg, I do 7 out of 10. I totally agree with your # 11; drives me nuts. Another pet peeve of mine is someone writing 'loose' when they mean 'lose.' I see it all the time. I really hate it when I spend money on e-books that have all kinds of errors. Whatever happened to proof-reading? What kind of editors are those authors using?
I enjoyed your post! :-)

[achacunsagloire]

I'm not sure that a lot of people who publish via internet (a.k.a. self-publishers) have access to editors--at least, not professional-grade editors. Editors of that caliber would most likely require some sort of compensation for editing an entire book, and self-publishers typically don't make enough off of their work to merit hiring someone to do something that they themselves could do. But the rub is that self-editing is hard to do; you wrote it, and therefore you know what it should say. So, while you're reading, you read what you know it's supposed to say, not what it actually says. It's something that takes some time to do and would require the self-publisher to set aside the work for a while and focus on something else. And, well, who isn't ready to post something the minute that they finish it? xD

But anyway, thank you. I'm glad you enjoy the post. :)

[lmichelle599]

I've done number 4.

Number 9 happens more often than you'd think. :P

[achacunsagloire]

Oh, I do #9 all the time. I can't help it at this point. xD

[germankitty]

Suggestion for #13: Learn the difference between "lie/lay". Just because everybody and their aunt says so, "laid" is NOT the correct past tense for someone to lie down!

And thank you for this post!

[achacunsagloire]

Funny thing: someone mentioned "lie/lay" as a possible #12 when this post was up for proofreading.

And no problem! :)