It’s National Grammar Day. How are you going to celebrate?
- Turn all the extra apostrophes you find into little winky emoticons.
- Parrot back the word “like” whenever it gets misused in sentence (“like, you know, a Valley girl).
- Carry your blue pencil with you so you can correct incorrect commas.
- Say “Whom” with your most snooty, nose-up-in-the-air kind of voice everytime someones uses “who” instead.
- Leave comments at all the blogs that incorrectly capitalize their post titles.
- Wear your “It’s/Its, Your/You’re, There/Their/They’re” t-shirt everywhere you go.
- Mentally correct all the radio and television commentators who speak badly during their broadcasts.
- Curl up in a cozy chair with your favorite grammar book
- Sing the song.
- Link back to our Mangled Monday features to help out your grammatically-needy friends.
Or, do you have some other festivities planned?
I was going to be obnoxious and leave a comment in really poor grammar but then I realized 90% of people on the earth wouldn’t even realize there was an issue and I got kinda depressed about the fall of society…
@Hillary–That’s a very good (and depressing) point, so thanks for that!
Deb,
Thanks for the reminder. I always miss this day. I love your list of ways to celebrate.
As a card-carrying member of the grammar police, I salute you.
P.S. I mentally correct the radio/news every day. Should I be saving this for special occasions?
Lori–I think that mentally correcting the folks on the radio/tv is something you can do every day!