Comments on: Sentence structure could use some improvement

By: El Jefe

El Jefe — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:08:53 +0000

How do you spell “fuck” in Australia without F’s?

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:22:04 +0000

If the ‘corrector’ is adding a full stop after “thought out properly”, then the ‘we’ immediately following should be ‘We’. Just sayin….oh and they forgot to capitalise ‘please’ after ‘lot’ also. So would that be an F for the wonderful editor of this note?

By: Bulala

Bulala — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 10:55:49 +0000

Is it just me, or did the note writer practice writing the word ‘thought’ in the lower-right corner before adding it to the body of the note?

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 01:21:54 +0000

I am an Australian primary school teacher, and we don’t have F’s. We have an A – E marking scale. I’m not sure about high schools though. University marks are 1 – 7.

By: Tesselara

Tesselara — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 14:37:52 +0000

Me too!

By: Kupo

Kupo — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 03:35:57 +0000

It sounds to me like they’re suggesting that the whole not-using-the-garage thing be re-considered by all of the housemates. Doesn’t sound unreasonable at all to me, though I don’t know the full context. If someone else took the closest spot to the door and now this guy is pissed because he usually gets that spot, maybe it’s passive-aggressive after all. *shrug*

By: Ajax

Ajax — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 02:39:42 +0000

@ HK
*even though I were the transgressor

By: Vulpis

Vulpis — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 23:51:00 +0000

It’s reasonable to tell someone to park in the garage that they had specifically been asked *not* to park in, due to it being put to a different use?

By: Mel K

Mel K — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:21:05 +0000

You’ve spotted a typical PAN characteristic. Always start out as if the note applies to everyone in the house/office/dormitory. +10/10

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:50:36 +0000

A guy I had been texting with confused to/too, of/off and know/now. He also had no use for question marks but liked extra periods. And capitalization? No way! Capitalization is for losers! We no longer text.

By: HK

HK — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:39:52 +0000

I hate to be such a contrarian—particularly since I myself am an avid fan of grammar—but it seems to me that the note writer makes a reasonable request here. This is an informal note—not an essay or school assignment—so it’s stupid to correct his grammar and return the note to him. Feeling defensive for having been called out on my bad behavior, I would have corrected it, but then kept the letter for myself to look at from time to time to make myself feel bigger, even though I was the transgressor.

By: Wait..what?

Wait..what? — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:20:51 +0000

His response is pretty typical of the way a teacher would grade the page. Sentence fragments. And such, you know?

Awesome response. Grammar Nazis rule!!

By: Purr Monster

Purr Monster — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:17:43 +0000

I love it, as I myself am an editor!

By: oi

oi — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 13:58:42 +0000

What I am curious about is how did he arrive to the total score of 28?