Am I a Grammatical Freakazoid?
Today at work we had a "presentation" from a customer service speaker. She was a great speaker, very natural and knowledgeable. However, there were a couple of things I couldn't get past:
A) Her grammar - For someone who was so seemingly intelligent and well spoken, she used words like "anyways" and "eckspecially" - Arrrgh!
B) Her Power Point - There were a couple of misspellings and her slides didn't match her handouts. Don't even get me started on the sentences containing spontaneously capitalized words. Double arrrgh!
I left her a note on the anonymous comment sheet about the mistakes in her power point - then I felt bad. But hey - if it were me, I'd want to know. Does that make me a horrible freak? Conan the grammarian strikes again.
A) Her grammar - For someone who was so seemingly intelligent and well spoken, she used words like "anyways" and "eckspecially" - Arrrgh!
B) Her Power Point - There were a couple of misspellings and her slides didn't match her handouts. Don't even get me started on the sentences containing spontaneously capitalized words. Double arrrgh!
I left her a note on the anonymous comment sheet about the mistakes in her power point - then I felt bad. But hey - if it were me, I'd want to know. Does that make me a horrible freak? Conan the grammarian strikes again.
I'm also a grammar freak. I have also become an enunciation freak, particularly since my son began talking. How can he possibly learn to speak properly (and later learn to spell properly by sounding things out) if the people setting the example for him speak in a lazy way? I try to pronounce all my "t"s (GeTTing, not GeDDing), etc...I imagine hubby is tired of me shooting him looks everytime he says "gonna" to our son instead of "going to"...But, we are his example, and I figure we owe it to him to be good examples.
Posted by
Anonymous |
3:19 PM
Oh good, I am not alone. And hey, people make mistakes - I get that. I just feel like if you are giving a presentation you should at least have someone proof it for typos, etc. It's not a casual thing (like a blog or an e-mail for instance) where mistakes are totally forgivable.
:)
Posted by
PreppyGirl |
3:46 PM
Things like that make me crazy too. You are certainly not alone. I fail to comprehend how people can earn a BS degree and write so poorly they would have flunked my eighth grade English class.
Posted by
Gail Martin |
4:00 PM
I am so glad I have a friend to proofread my stories for that magazine (I wouldn't Want to come Across as stoopid).
Anyways, i figure if you make mistakes on PurpOse then noOne will no if you meant it or Not?"
xxoo
Posted by
princess slea |
6:41 PM
My nickname in my high school English class? Mary the Grammarian. You are NOT alone!
I have a professor right now who says the following things that drive me crazy: lar-nyx (instead of larynx), alveolis (instead of alveolis), and diagnosises (instead of diagnoses). DRIVES ME CRAZY!
Also, Bill uses this interesting word...acrossed. As in, "She lives acrossed the street from him." Here in Pennsylvania, I learned the word was across. Apparently, over in New Jersey, they speak a whole different language!
Posted by
MC |
3:08 PM
I meant alveolis instead of alveoli. Maybe I should proofread my own damned comments sometime instead of making fun of other people.
Posted by
MC |
3:09 PM
I did re-read that a couple of times - lol. Hey, typos are forgivable. I should know that the people whose blogs I read are like me. If your blogs were full of bad grammar and misspellings, it would probably drive me nuts!
Posted by
PreppyGirl |
10:51 AM