i hope christian isn’t a stickler for grammar
not sure if you heard about christian bales tirade against some poor man who dared to check out the lights during a scene he was shooting for terminator 19 (or whatever version it is). apparently, christian isn’t the only human to get his panties in a bunch because of seemingly small but annoying infraction.
it seems that due to the onslaught of stressful events (failing job market, financial implosion, election 08, war) grammarians are ratcheting up the battle to save the english language. clinical psychologist pauline wallin says that “stress can affect how forgiving people are of spelling and punctuation errors…when people are under stress, they have less tolerance for minor frustrations.” here’s are some ways that grammarians are acting out:
- grammar vandal kate mcculley uses her sharpie to correct offenses in her native boston and posts them on her website. she calls out bill cosby (who i think lately has seemed all there), and i’m not sure he’ll like that.
- there’s a group on facebook called “i judge you because you use poor grammar” that has over 350,000 people.
- two people were charged with conspiracy to vandalize government property after they fixed punctuation errors on a historic hand-painted sign in Grand Canyon National Park. they got a year’s probation, were banned from national parks, and were prohibited from making any more corrections to public signs, and were ordered to pay more than $3,000 to fix the problem.
- many people refuse to patronize stores like “krispy kreme” and flip out when the takeout menu lands on their doorstep rife with errors (e.g., plate of chicken finger).
as i said, i just hope christian bale isn’t a stickler for grammar, though by now we know he isn’t bothered by profanity. can you imagine the tirade at toys “r” us.
- WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?
- ARE YOU PROFESSIONAL OR NOT?
- DO I WALK AROUND YOUR STORE AND MOVE LETTERS AROUND?
- WHAT DON’T YOU F*&^% UNDERSTAND?
- IT’S F&*(#@ DISTRACTING!
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