Quote of the Day, Mister Language Person's Division

[bloodyrosemccoy]

“You just got Strunked!”

 

Today’s quote brought to you by Strunk & White’s Elements of Style, which expressly forbids verbing nouns and would probably burst into flames in the presence of someone verbing one of its authors’ names to mean “called on a flagrant grammatical error.”

 

Delicious, ain’t it?

Comments

[gryfindormia.livejournal.com]

STRUNK AND WHITE, REMAINING HP 1

*AMELIA (MYSELF) CASTS "GERUND" SPELL*

STRUNK AND WHITE FAINT FROM EXHAUSTION.

AMELIA GAINS 30 EXPERIENCE POINTS AND HAS LEARNED A NEW ABILITY, "SEQUENCING TENSES".

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wastrel/]

That icon is awesome.

I'm sorry, it just had to be said.

[gryfindormia.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Wanna know my dirty little secret? I still sometimes play Pokemon blue on my Game Boy Color.

[nixve.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Awesomeness!

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

*snerk*

I wonder what happened to my copies? I had two, once upon a time.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

I will admit to enjoying William Safire's column on Sundays as long as he stays away from politics.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

And I have to admit that he bugs me. I much prefer somebody like Geoffrey Nunberg.