LMAO!!!!!!

[nadinbrzezinski]

[unblock]

1. the grammar nazi saw a typo... his heart stopped as well....

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Quick call 911

[elleng]

3. I before E . . . . .

[longship]

4. Two typos. It was inevitable.

Or maybe the cartoon's author should go back to grammar school.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. I know, the point was made and it was on point

give any US Senator the pay check for an E-2, hell I'll by nice an E-7, and watch them stammer.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. "be"

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. ?????

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Presumably you will "be" nice rather than "by nice". nt

[calimary]

14. Now THAT kind of typo I can get behind.

I was gonna add something about the incorrect spelling of "received" that caught my eye, but hell, my computer won't even let me type it the wrong way!

[lastlib]

16. the REAL grammar nazi saw TWO errors.....

The Senator in question is obviously a Democrat, because a Repuglikan has no heart to fail.

(I'll let the non-nazis among us stew over what the second error is......)

[Curmudgeoness]

20. Ohhhhh! Duh!

It only took me five reads to see it, and I am usually one of the people who finds this sort of thing distracting.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

30. Apostrophe

[lame54]

18. If it's I before E except after C why does his smock read NCIS?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. I wish cartoonists so incisive would not step on their great points by their silly mistakes.

Really, it takes so little effort to be careful.

Think about it in terms of time. If it takes cartoon readers an extra two seconds to stumble over the two grammar / spelling errors at the rate of one out of every two readers, and the cartoonist hopes to have 10,000 readers, then that is 10,000 seconds, or about three hours wasted. If the cartoonist invest a minute checking the text and ten minutes running it by a couple of friends, that is a tremendous gain for very little investment of time.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Ok grammar nazi have fun with it

most of the folks who have read and seen this are laughing.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. I found it funny too, and incisive as I said. Perspicacious, even.

incisive: (of a person or mental process) intelligently analytical and clear-thinking.
"she was an incisive critic"
synonyms: penetrating, acute, sharp, sharp-witted, razor-sharp, keen, astute, trenchant, shrewd, piercing, cutting, perceptive, insightful, percipient, perspicacious, discerning, analytical, clever, smart, quick;

[Beartracks]

12. not to mention...

... that too many readers will focus on the typos rather than the message, or will disregard or even disparage the message altogether.

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[Plucketeer]

15. Yeah - too many folks only see the "MORAN" sign in their head

Hell, my head USUALLY knows better, while my fingers are kinda dumb.

The cartoon is classic! Luved it!

[whopis01]

22. Do you feel the spelling mistake takes away from the message

in any way at all?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

23. It only takes time away from the message. As I said, it's incisive (and I might add, insightful). nt

[whopis01]

24. It is hard for me to see how it takes away from the message. n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

27. Yes, that would be hard if you didn't read post #8 of mine that you responded to. Try reading it. nt

[whopis01]

29. I did read it.

There really is no need to be rude. It does very little aid the discussion.

I understood your point about all the lost time. However, for me, it still does not take away from the message at all. The communication of the idea is accomplished equally well with or without the mistake.

Would it have been better on the author's part to have not had the mistake there? Certainly, at least for aesthetic purposes. Would it have taken much more effort to eliminate it? No, likely it would not have. I agree with you in that sense. However I still stand by my assertion that it does not take away from the message.

I think back to when I was in grad school and worked with a post-doc who was from China. He struggled quite a lot with English (at least for the first couple years he was here) and he could be quite difficult to understand. However, he was quite brilliant and once he got his message across the prior difficulties in no way took away from it.

I realize that is a bit more of an extreme example than a simple misspelling. But I think the idea that communication is more than and quite separate from the medium holds true for it.

But in the end this is, of course, just my opinion.

[Phlem]

13. This thread has

Godwins law all over it you Nazi's.





-p

[vlakitti]

17. Yay!

[Bandit]

19. I was cleaning out some stuff yesterday and found record of my very first military paycheck

$6.25 for my first paycheck..I think things are a lot different now though. lol

[sad-cafe]

21. so true

or hero soldiers do not get the recognition they deserve

[ChisolmTrailDem]

25. Rec #100 ... nt

[libdem4life]

26. "soldier's paycheck"...possessive not plural.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

28. I think the dialogue writer stole the cartoon & adapted it by writing over pre-existing text. nt

[raven mad]

31. My butt was kicked about grammar from grade school on -

and this is a GREAT cartoon.............

[stage left]

32. K&R

Frankly the senior senator from SC isn't worth E-2 pay. Nor the junior one either.