Pedaling Peddlers

self | January 12, 2013 | Revolting cat!

[Revolting cat!]

(You can go right ahead and point out my grammatical errors.)

[Drango]

I like jello and shadow puppets when the earth tilts to the equinox.

[Revolting cat!]

BING! (Bump + Ping)

[Responsibility2nd]

Mark Hel prin?

He’s a looser.

[Revolting cat!]

You shore, Shirley? (There is a similarly named Lefty Newsweak writer.)

[KarlInOhio]

Romanes eunt domus

Sorry, I meant Romani ite domun.

[Patriot95]

I believe it’s “loser.”

Sieg Heil,

Your friendly neighborhood grammar Gestapo

[untenured]

If I had the malicious nature I would post some of my essays from students in my basic economics class. This would end all debate on the quality of instruction in the English language in the contemporary United States. Some of them (not all, I hasten to add) must be seen to be believed.

[JoeFromSidney]

What you'e seeing is a grammatical version of entropy going on. The loss of distinctions between "there's" and "theirs," and all the other similar misuses simply means that eventually we will be unable to communicate because we won't know what the writer meant.

[Intolerant in NJ]

I have only one I really hate: I only have one I really hate.....

[Revolting cat!]

I saw this graffiti in Warsaw a couple of years ago. It means "Pedaling Ban!", a little too literally illustrated, mere words would have sufficed, because in Polish the word "pedał", that is "pedal" is a common name for a pederast, which has unfortunately been replaced in the U.S. and elsewhere by a synonym of the word "cheerful".

[Dr. Pritchett]

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!!!

-Highlander

[proxy_user]

I always appreciate those who are waiting with baited breath, because I can ask them what they’re using for bait!

[Revolting cat!]

Well, I only have eyes for you!

[Standing Wolf]

But I digress.

If you'd been in one of my freshman English classes, you'd have known better than to try to get away with a sentence fragment.

[Melas]

Having been published myself, let me say this is in no way the fault of the author. During a deadline discussion, 20 some years ago I received this sage piece of advice and have never forgotten it: Your job is to be creative. Submit your rough drafts and let the copy editors deal with it from there.

[Revolting cat!]

It’s a mistake I don’t understand. How would he describe a bicycle? “A bicycle has two peddles”?

[Revolting cat!]

[Daffynition]

There's $$$ to be made out there for this malady.... go for it! I *feel* a blog in your future.

[ConservativeChris]

“If you’d been in one of my freshman English classes”

The only thing I know is that the end of a sentence is not where a preposition should be at! Seriesly, this is hugh! A preposition is not what a sentence should end with!