Comments on: Grammar we can believe in

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:01:06 +0000

I wonder if the writer realized that the title for this piece is not grammatically correct.

How about: “Grammar in which we can believe”

By: Ivan

Ivan — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:11:17 +0000

just to follow up on the outrage over the capitalisation:

the statement is title cased, and title casing can have varying conventions. often, in title casing, articles, such as “a”, “it”, “or”, etc., will be lower cased. see the below new york times headline for an example:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/01/world/middleeast/01iraq.html?hp

that being said, a brief subheadline or regular headline, like “sign up below” would usually appear with “up”, a two letter word, capitalised.

vote nader

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:34:13 +0000

My question: Is it ok to *conditionally* meet with anti-American foreign leaders? “Well…. ok, Mr. Anti-American Leader, I’ll meet with you, but only on these three conditions: 1) Send a black car set to 73 degrees–not 72, not 74, 73–to meet me at the airport. 2) I will eat only orange M&Ms while I’m there; remove all other M&M colors from your candy dishes. 3) Between 2-7 PM, I nap. John McCain does things how he does things.”

As for the random capitalization, unfortunately, I don’t think they teach correct capitalization anymore. Every time I get proposal responses from anyone on the tech staff here at work, I have to fix capitalization. Maybe there’s a rule where you can capitalize every sixth word and that’s fine? If so, I must have been sick from school that day.

By: Victoria

Victoria — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:50:28 +0000

A candidate who hates both beer AND grammar is going to lose a lot of the vote…

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:24:00 +0000

He’s clearly trying to avoid the “elitist” label.

By: brooklyn gal

brooklyn gal — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:00:49 +0000

Also, Obama has never said that he thinks it is “OK to unconditionally meet with anti-American foreign leaders.” He believes in diplomacy. McCain should stop twisting words around.