Are grammar and spelling lost arts?

[RecycleMichael]

quote:Originally posted by jdb

Yeah, but it's the wrong time of year to be selling Ho's.

I am pretty sure that this is the only time of year you can sell Ho's.

I always wanted to have an answering machine message that played Santa's voice saying Ho Ho Ho.

I would call it "Dial a Ho".

[sgrizzle]

quote:Originally posted by recyclemichael


I am pretty sure that this is the only time of year you can sell Ho's.

Acutally edmond's mayor tried that:

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Congratulations to Mayor Saundra Naifeh of Edmond, Oklahoma, who may be the best mayor ever. She recently spent a day wearily trudging from door to door in her city, delivering leaflets discouraging underage drinking. Helpfully, they even included a phone number so kids could rat out underage drinking parties.

Unfortunately for Mayor Naifeh, a typo meant that the phone number on them went to a sex line.

The mistake was only discovered after 22,000 of the leaflets had been distributed.

The phone number on the leaflets led callers to a phone service which offered 'exciting live talk' for between 99 cents and $2.99 a minute. The exact nature of the 'exciting live talk' has not been specified, but it seems safe to assume that it doesn't involve counselling on the perils of alcohol.

Authorities attributed the error to a typo when the leaflet was created by the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.

The Mayor was out personally delivering the leaflets as part of a national event called Make A Difference Day,which strives to 'to help neighbors and the community.' Mission accomplished on that one, it would seem.

Mayor Naifeh modestly played down her triumph by attacking the media for revealing that the number was a sex-line. 'It will change the focus of what we were doing,' she fumed.

'It is not part of the story,' she added, inaccurately.

[sgrizzle]

Is this a sentence?

"Part of that attraction is about the quality of life."

I was perusing the City of Tulsa to website to see if we were being bad. Apparently someone should pass out a memo with the definition of "sentence fragment" on it.

At least that is what I.

[Johnboy976]

By the way, did anyone notice in that rather humorous article that there was a typo?

"The Mayor was out personally delivering the leaflets as part of a national event called Make A Difference Day,which strives to 'to help neighbors and the community.' Mission accomplished on that one, it would seem."

You do not need to use a word two times in-a-row (of course that is depending on the circumstance... mind you, this time is not one of those times).

[jdb]

Everyone knows Springtime is the best time to sell Ho's - they command a much higher price.

[papaspot]

quote:Originally posted by sgrizzle

Is this a sentence?

"Part of that attraction is about the quality of life."

I was perusing the City of Tulsa to website to see if we were being bad. Apparently someone should pass out a memo with the definition of "sentence fragment" on it.

I dunno, sgrizzle--it looks like a complete sentence to me. It's got all its parts. I think it's awkward because of the unnecessary inclusion of the word "about." I'll run it by my wife this evening. She's a REAL grammar nazi. [}:)]

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At least that is what I.

[}:)]

[snopes]

quote:Originally posted by sgrizzle

Is this a sentence?
"Part of that attraction is about the quality of life."

It's a sentence, just a pooooooooorly constructed one. It doesn't make much sense either, unless it was in context as follows:

"People from many countries are attracted to the United States. Part of that attraction is about the quality of life."

But then, the sentence in question would be better if it said something like "This attraction is mainly due to the quality of life."


My 2 "sense."

[AngieB]

Teaching grammar these days is a "loosing" battle.
[}:)]



Man, that one drives me crazy.

[snopes]

quote:Originally posted by TulsaMINI

Teaching grammar these days is a "loosing" battle.
[}:)]



Man, that one drives me crazy.

TMini, you LOOSER! []

[AngieB]

quote:Originally posted by snopes



TMini, you LOOSER! []

No need to be mean...just because bad grammar makes me [sic]!  []

[Kiah]

quote:Originally posted by TulsaMINI

Teaching grammar these days is a "loosing" battle.
[}:)]



Man, that one drives me crazy.

There's only one common mistake more annoying THEN that one.

[papaspot]

quote:Originally posted by Kiah

quote:Originally posted by TulsaMINI

Teaching grammar these days is a "loosing" battle.
[}:)]



Man, that one drives me crazy.

There's only one common mistake more annoying THEN that one.

Guess you'll just to except it.

[snopes]

quote:Originally posted by papaspot

quote:Originally posted by Kiah

quote:Originally posted by TulsaMINI

Teaching grammar these days is a "loosing" battle.
[}:)]



Man, that one drives me crazy.

There's only one common mistake more annoying THEN that one.

Guess you'll just to except it.

[Johnboy976]

Regarding: "Part of that attraction is about the quality of life." I am getting my masters, and this sentence would not fly with professors.

papaspot is right... "about" is unnecessary. Grammatically this sentence would stand on its own if it weren't for the fact that "about" leads the sentence to refer to multiple "attractions." Simply put, the preposition turns the focus away from "the quality of life." If that was the intention of the writer, they should have written it more coherently.

[aoxamaxoa]

No, art is lost.....