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Old 09-13-2014, 06:02 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Ladies and gentlemen, Grammar Week has begun. The Grammar Nazis are watching you, and they never sleep.
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Old 09-13-2014, 06:15 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Ladies and gentlemen, Grammar Week has begun. The Grammar Nazis are watching you, and they never sleep.
I am countering Grammar Week with Fact Checker Week. Fact: it's impossible to "never sleep." The record to go without sleep is about 11 days and live by Randy Gardner. There was this Japanese business man who was working on a merger (even though he was going to loose his job) worked days without sleeping and drop dead. He death was attributed to sleep deprivation.

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Jiang Xiaoshan dies after watching every Euro 2012 match and going 11 nights without sleep | Mail Online
edit: Goofle do not attempt to do this^
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I am countering Grammar Week with Fact Checker Week. Fact: it's impossible to "never sleep." The record to go without sleep is about 11 days and live by Randy Gardner. There was this Japanese business man who was working on a merger (even though he was going to loose his job) worked days without sleeping and drop dead. He death was attributed to sleep deprivation.

And then there is this story:
Jiang Xiaoshan dies after watching every Euro 2012 match and going 11 nights without sleep | Mail Online
edit: Goofle do not attempt to do this^
I'm sorry, Neo. You're my first victim.
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Old 09-13-2014, 06:59 PM   #4 (permalink)
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I am countering Grammar Week with Fact Checker Week. Fact: it's impossible to "never sleep." The record to go without sleep is about 11 days and live by Randy Gardner. There was this Japanese business man who was working on a merger (even though he was going to loose his job) and worked days without sleeping and drop dead. He death was attributed to sleep deprivation.

And then there is this story:
Jiang Xiaoshan dies after watching every Euro 2012 match and going 11 nights without sleep | Mail Online
edit: Goofle do not attempt to do this^
Sorry PS; you missed one! Semper Correctis! (also there should be an "and" in between his job and worked, as shown)
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I'll say it again. African-Canadians, admitt it it sounds odd...
Where do I begin? "African-Canadians" should be in quotation marks, since you're referencing the term, and not actually using it in the sentence; you misspelled "admit", and that last ... sentence, is just a mess of horrid punctuation. This may be like shooting fish in a barrel for Grammar Week, but it still had to be done. I'm just glad it was me.

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Sorry PS; you missed one! Semper Correctis! (also there should be an "and" in between his job and worked, as shown)
Dude, come on. A sentence in parenthesis still has to follow basic grammar rules. You must capitalize the first word, and use proper punctuation (you missed the comma after "Also", and the period after "shown".) You have failed this city.
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Where do I begin? "African-Canadians" should be in quotation marks, since you're referencing the term, and not actually using it in the sentence; you misspelled "admit", and that last ... sentence, is just a mess of horrid punctuation. This may be like shooting fish in a barrel for Grammar Week, but it still had to be done. I'm just glad it was me.



Dude, come on. A sentence in parenthesis still has to follow basic grammar rules. You must capitalize the first word, and use proper punctuation (you missed the comma after "Also", and the period after "shown".) You have failed this city.
Sorry, Batty. The plural of parenthesis is parentheses.
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Sorry, Batty. The plural of parenthesis is parentheses.
What the ****, dude? I just raked Roxy over the coals for not putting words that she was referencing in a sentence in quotation marks, and now you have failed to do the same with "parenthesis" and "parentheses".




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Actually, they've both been eliminated. However, it would be too boring without those two. I'm off to revise the rules! Welcome to the Ministry of Truth!
Trollheart already corrected your grammar, so you're also disqualified, which would make your correction of my grammar invalid.
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What the ****, dude? I just raked Roxy over the coals for not putting words that she was referencing in a sentence in quotation marks, and now you have failed to do the same with "parenthesis" and "parentheses".






Trollheart already corrected your grammar, so you're also disqualified, which would make your correction of my grammar invalid.
No man, Trollheart wasn't correcting my grammar. He was correcting Neo.

EDIT: It really would be too boring without you and Trollheart. I've revised the rules slightly. Be glad.
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