Check out this funny cartoon my friend Ashley sent me today:
We found it humorous that the comma bandit was actually placing commas everywhere, not taking them away (which is probably what the bandit should've been doing -- people tend to overuse, commas, not underuse, them).
Ashley told me that I would be the semicolon bandit, which is true -- I'm a big advocate for the semicolon (it's my favorite punctuation mark). However, I disagreed -- I think I would be the apostrophe bandit. The general public's inability to use the apostrophe correctly is one of my biggest pet peeves in all of life. (Sad, right?) In fact, there was a sign on my coworker's desk this morning that said, among other things, "Band's Wanted." Seriously? Luckily, it was on white paper, so I took my whiteout tape and saved the poor guy (whoever he is) from embarrassment.
See? I'm a good apostrophe bandit, not a bad one.
4 comments:
Right. A good bandit.
A regular Robin Hood for the written word.
HAHAHA
you're hilarious!!!!
So...today at work, there was a sign up on the server line that said something to the effect of:
Attention Servers
Children menus are only for kids 12 and under.
If an adult gets one you must charge the extra price.
There is no condition.
or something like that...
SO
Someone went through with our red server pens and fixed the punctuation and word usage problems!
The best part:
at the bottom of the paper was a red C- hahaha!
I said, "oh man, I can't wait to tell Beth!"
HAHA
SO I thought of you at work today!!!!!!!!!!!
Can I just say that every time I read your blogs I laugh out loud? I enjoy the pictures and the commentary on things like grammar. Now that I have my own blog I am more apt to check out other people's, so keep those posts coming. Did I use that apostrophe in "people's" right?
casey found this and we both thought of you:
http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/
it has "your name" all over it :o)
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