"Ren Driver" <kinkinhood@proidgy.net> wrote in message news:<1AbYa.2820$Wc7.2449@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com>...
> A good bit off topic but commenting on grammar nazi.  I get the same way.
> Find some books that their first print is pre 1970.  Sometimes you'll find
> typos and grammar errors in them cause they had no form of spell check.
> Though you have to find a print of it that was before computers to find the
> typo(one example is atlantian chronicles.  On the second page one of the
> thoughs is spelled tho)
> "Drinian" <sailracer6@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:2dd50ad9.0308060754.333e8447@posting.google.com...
> > nukemandx@cs.com (Sauka) wrote in message
>  news:<ad656ff6.0308051836.62114e0c@posting.google.com>...
> >
> > > Wow I feel so insulted.
> >
> > You're right, I do owe you an apology. I shouldn't have done that the
> > other night... I guess it's one of those examples of how the
> > semi-anonymity of the Internet leads me to do things I wouldn't out
> > here in the so-called "real world." I'm sure that anyone able enough
> > to find their way to Usenet has at least some modicum of intelligence
> > (that's why I spend time posting here instead of on random Eva
> > boards). Don't take it personally: I'm a grammar Nazi. I get pissed
> > off* when the Associated Press makes mistakes in their stories, which
> > happens to be about once a day.
> >
> > And I actually enjoy re-writing things, especially while I'm reading
> > books or watching movies. Sort of a mental game to improve my own
> > writing.** I'm hoping to try out being an editor at a publishing house
> > sometime. Of course, I forget that criticism is invited by the author
> > in those situations.
> >
> > Oh, and for an example of a poorly written post by me (at least in
> > terms of attempted humor), have a look at the thread "New Movie Poster
> > (or "I'm at it again")."
> >
> > -- Drinian
> >
> >
> > * colloquialism, -10 points
> > ** sentence fragment, -20 points

^.^ can't say much more late again. BAHH!!