Miscellaneous thoughts on politics, people, math, science and other cool (if sometimes frustrating) stuff from somewhere near my favorite coffee shop.
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Grammar Matters
Some of the geotweeps were bemoaning the misuse of homonyms like two, too and to, or your vs. you're, yesterday. So I decided to try to console them...
@jrepka- Love it! The "awl" didn't even occur to me, and I remember pausing to make sure I was using the right form of it's, when I should have chosen the wrong form. I think I've seen that essay too.
Couldn't you have gone all the way with:
ReplyDelete"there, their, they're, its awl write know"
"awl" and "know" are probably stretching it, but using the possessive "its" certainly brings it home for me.
I once came across a short essay extolling the benefits of spell-check that used nothing but homonyms...
@jrepka- Love it! The "awl" didn't even occur to me, and I remember pausing to make sure I was using the right form of it's, when I should have chosen the wrong form. I think I've seen that essay too.
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