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Monday, June 12, 2006

Random grammar venting time!
Okay, so I'm watching an old CSI ep on Spike containing a serial killer who leaves a message at his/her crime scenes. The first one they find reads, and I quote, and sic, and all that good stuff, "Iv'e killed 5 women / Catch me if you can?"
The CSIs talk to the handwriting analyst and he points of various things like the crossing of the T, etc. including the fact that the writer was "uneducated" because of the misplaced apostrophe in the contraction "I've". Hrm, what about the even bigger error of the freaking question mark hanging out where it doesn't belong?! "Catch me if you can" is not a question but rather a command, and the "if" part isn't interrogative either because it's a subordinate clause. Subordinate clauses cannot be interrogative. also, I didn't even see the misplaced apostrophe right away, partly because of the horrible lighting on that show, but the question mark popped right out at me. And yet the analyst picks out the apostrophe. Weirdo. :P

Public Service Announcement: On forms of any kind, when there is a notice telling you to print clearly, PRINT CLEARLY, DAMMIT! People who have never met you or heard of you before have to read that name of yours, and if it happens to be something like "Anasdarylla Ghorajnikpoo" or whatever sort of strange ethnic name you may have acquired at birth, your unintelligible scrawl will not be enough to guess it. It's a sad fact of life that people tend to recognize names such as "Joe" or "Mary" better than "Tyreekqua" and "Smith" or "Brown" better than "Borascewski". So please, write neatly and legibly, for the sake of those who have to write down your name again.
And what's wrong with spelling it "Deborah"? Why always "Debra"? Strange, strange people.

Happy birthday to me, one day early. :3
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